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Clostridium Difficile Infection (CDI)

Single Dose of Antibiotic Can Increase Vulnerability to Intestinal Infection

Yet another study adds to the growing evidence that antibiotics can disrupt the balance of the intestinal flora, with negative effects on health. A team of researchers from the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York City, has shown in mouse models that a single ...More
3 weeks ago
Posted in News
Virtual Lecture on Clostridium difficile Infection is Offered

Rates of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) have been on the rise in recent years and this diagnosis can result in significant costs for both individuals and the healthcare system as a whole. Given the recent updated guidelines for CDI, combined with several new agents ...More
December 20, 2011
Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens, PPE & Standard Precautions
C. diff Infection Prolongs Hospital Length of Stay

The effect of hospital-acquired infection with Clostridium difficile on length of stay in hospital is not yet fully understood. Alan J. Forster, of the Clinical Epidemiology Program at Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, and colleagues, determined the independent impact of ...More
December 6, 2011
Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens, PPE & Standard Precautions
Antibiotics May Not be the Only Cause of Community-Acquired CDI

Antibiotics may not be the only risk factor associated with community-acquired Clostridium difficile infection (CDI), indicating that other undefined causes of the potentially life-threatening infection may exist and could also predict whether or not a patient will require ...More
October 31, 2011
Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens
Fecal Microbiota Transplants Effective Treatment for C. difficile

Growing evidence for the effectiveness of fecal microbiota transplants as a treatment for patients with recurrent bouts of Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea is presented in three studies -- including a long-term follow-up of colonoscopic fecal microbiota transplant ...More
October 31, 2011
Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens
Scientists Working on a New Treatment for Clostridium difficile

MGB Biopharma, a biopharmaceutical company which has licensed technology from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland, is developing a powerful new antibiotic treatment for resistant organisms including Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) and ...More
September 20, 2011
Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens
Dificid Poised to Challenge Vancomycin Usage in the Treatment of Clostridium difficile Infection

Arlington Medical Resources (AMR) and BioTrends Research Group find that less than half of surveyed infectious disease (ID) specialists and only 6 percent of surveyed internists demonstrated unaided awareness of and familiarity with Dificid prior to its U.S. launch in ...More
September 12, 2011
Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens
Study Identifies New Way to Treat Common HAI

The right image shows abundant S-nitrosylation (green) in human colitis compared with much less found in the left image of a normal colon. Researchers at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston have discovered a ...More
August 22, 2011
Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens
Investigators Discover Outbreak C. difficile Strain is Endemic in Chicago Hospitals

An outbreak strain of Clostridium difficile, a bacterium that causes diarrhea and sometimes life-threatening inflammation of the colon, is common in Chicago-area acute care hospitals, an investigation published in the September issue of Infection Control and Hospital ...More
August 11, 2011
Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens
Investigators Show That the Epidemiology of CDI is Changing

Clostridium difficile is the most common cause of nosocomial infectious diarrhea in the United States. However, recent reports have documented that C. difficile infections (CDIs) are occurring among patients without traditional risk factors. Jennifer L Kuntz, of the Center ...More
July 19, 2011
Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens

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