Abbreviations: mITT, modified intent to treat; TTROD, time to resolution of diarrhea. *Comparing fidaxomicin and vancomycin. †Log-rank P = .0003, with versus without cancer. ‡Log-rank P = .145, with ...

C. diff infection can cause diarrhea. While it may lead your poop to change color, there are no specific colors that are definitive evidence of having C. diff. According to the Centers for Disease ...

April 5, 2007 (Munich, Germany) — A database comparison of demographics, risk factors, and hospital outcomes for patients with Clostridium difficile–associated diarrhea (CDAD) shows that the preferred ...

In the final rule concerning Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems and Fiscal Year 2013, (scheduled for publication in the Federal Register on August 31, 2012), CMS states that: "After ...

Clostridium difficile (C. diff) can cause diarrhea, stomach pain, nausea, and fever. About 1 in 6 people get a second infection within weeks. C. diff is most common in people taking antibiotics, since ...

LAS VEGAS — Potentially deadly antibiotic-associated Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea (CDAD) affects 3 million Americans each year and is increasingly difficult to treat. Clinicians may want ...

Clostridium difficile is an unpleasant, sometimes severe, and potentially lethal infection. It is an enteric pathogen whose armory involves the production of a toxin leading to gut dysphoria and ...

Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is inflammation of the colon caused by a bacteria called clostridium difficile and is the most common cause of infectious diarrhea in hospitalized patients. Blood ...

You may not yet have heard of the bacterium Clostridium difficile (C. dif.), but in the next few years it will likely become a household name, as well known as Staph and Strep. C. dif. causes a severe ...

One man's trash is another man's treasure, as the saying goes. If things go to plan, feces from registered and thoroughly tested healthy donors will in a few years be the standard treatment for the ...

The gut-infecting bacterium Clostridium difficile is evolving into two separate species, with one group highly adapted to spread in hospitals, according to new research. Scientists have discovered ...