Clostridium difficile infections have developed into a virtual pandemic over the past two decades. The outcome of standard antibiotic treatment is unsatisfactory: the recurrence rates are high with every relapse increasing the risk of further follow-ups. Faecal microbiota transplantation offers...
New research reveals that there were two different strains of bacterium that caused the global epidemic of Clostridium difficile between 2002 and 2006, not just one. The two strains developed a resistance to the frontline antiobiotic fluoroquinolone which was used to treat C. difficile...
The largest scale study in Europe of the prevalence of a potentially fatal disease known as Clostridium difficile Infection (CDI) has just begun. The European, multi-centre, prospective bi-annual point prevalence study of Clostridium difficile Infection in hospitalized patients with Diarrhea...
CDI (C. difficile infection), a serious illness caused by C. difficile bacteria infecting the colon's internal lining, commonly occurs in patients who have used broad-spectrum antibiotics that disrupt the normal bowel flora so that the C. difficile bacteria, which produce toxins that cause colon...