When patients with Clostridium difficile colitis do not respond to usual treatment ... has excellent in vitro activity against C. difficile. Now, they report success using tigecycline to treat ...

Researchers studied 187 isolates of C. difficile collected from patients ... A 31-year-old woman pregnant with twins developed severe colitis that evolved into toxic megacolon; both the patient ...

Approximately 500,000 Americans develop C. difficile infections each year, and about 30,000 die. Further, patients who make ...

Clostridioides difficile (“C. diff”) can be very serious, even life-threatening, and requires powerful treatment. Microscopic colitis diseases are unusual and possibly autoimmune. They are ...

Approximately 500,000 Americans develop C. difficile infections each year, and about 30,000 die. Further, patients who make ...

C. diff is a microbe that causes diarrhoea, colitis and other bowel complications and is known to infect millions of people across the world each year. Previous studies have shown it causes more ...

Risk of C. difficile-associated diarrhea; discontinue and treat if colitis is suspected or confirmed. Reserve use for serious infections. Not for treatment of meningitis. Permanently discontinue ...