Clostridium difficile infections elevate the risks for colectomy, mortality and postoperative complications after a colectomy for patients with ulcerative colitis, according to NEJM Journal Watch.

An inflammation of the colon associated with C. difficile — C. difficile colitis — has increased nearly 50 percent from 2001-2005 to 2006-2010, according to a study in the Journal of the American ...

PHILADEPHIA — Both initial and sustained responses to fecal microbiota transplant (FMT) for the treatment of refractory C difficile infection remain high out to 18 months' follow-up, provided patients ...

A fecal microbiota transplant (FMT) not only cured a case of Clostridium difficile (C. diff) infection in a 66 year old man; it eliminated populations of multi-drug resistant organisms both in the ...

Four patients with severe disease were cured after receiving the new broad-spectrum antibiotic tigecycline. When patients with Clostridium difficile colitis do not respond to usual treatment with ...

Q: I'm not sure you'll take this question because of the subject matter, but it seems pretty important. Our dad had a fecal transplant as a last-ditch treatment for C. diff (Clostridioides difficile), ...

New research from the University of Virginia School of Medicine's William A. Petri Jr., MD, PhD, (left) and David Tyus suggests that doctors may be able to save patients from dangerous C. difficile ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Clostridioides difficile infection presents a unique treatment paradox for clinicians: Antibiotics are often ...

A Massachusetts nursing home will face a medical malpractice suit for allegedly failing to diagnose a resident’s bacterial infections that led to his death, an appeals court ruled recently. The case ...

The portion of our nervous systems responsible for the 'fight or flight' response can shape the severity of potentially deadly C. difficile infections, according to new research. The portion of our ...