The intestines contain a variety of bacteria, many of which help the body digest food. Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) is one of many bacteria commonly found in children’s intestines and poop.

Rather, blooms of LEM1 correlated with survival following VPI10463 inoculation, and exogenous administration of LEM1 before or shortly following VPI10463 inoculation prevented C. difficile-induced ...

Methods A single centre retrospective study on patients with a confirmed laboratory C.diff toxin positive result over a 12 month period in a tertiary healthcare setting, Queen’s Medical Centre ...

Clostridium difficile is a Gram-positive spore-forming bacteria that is a normal component of the colon flora in humans. It can cause antibiotic-associated diarrhea (ADD) when competing bacteria ...

The intestines contain a variety of bacteria, many of which help the body digest food. Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) is one of many bacteria commonly found in children’s intestines and poop.

Actoxumab, also a monoclonal antibody, works by neutralizing toxin A. Bezlotoxumab was approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in October for use in patients with recurrent C difficile ...

Investigators prospectively identified 42 hospitalized patients with diarrhea and negative C. difficile toxin EIAs in whom CDI had been confirmed with a two-step strategy using a more accurate ...

What is in your differential diagnosis when considering recurrent C difficile infections? How is a definitive diagnosis made?

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