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 ...

Mild Clostridium difficile infection (CDI; stool frequency <four-times daily; no signs of severe colitis), clearly induced by the use of antibiotics, may be treated by stopping the inducing ...

difficile infections each year, and about 30,000 die. Further, patients who make it through the severe diarrhea, nausea, ...

It produces spores and allows all metabolic activity. Clostridium difficile (C. diff) is a type of bacteria that can cause ...

Research by the University of Plymouth showed spores of Clostridium difficile, commonly known ... diff is a microbe that causes diarrhoea, colitis and other bowel complications and is known ...