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...
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...