C. diff, which is short for Clostridioides difficile, is a type of bacteria that may cause serious problems in the digestive ...

Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) is a stealthy threat. It infects more than 500,000 people in the United States each year, ...

Nova Scotia's other health districts don't test for the strain. Last year, Capital District Health Authority saw 81 cases of C. difficile, down from previous years.

Cite this: Nasia Safdar. Testing for C difficile Infection: A Challenging Conundrum - Medscape - Jan 28, 2014. Authors and Disclosures Authors and Disclosures Author (s) ...

A better lab test now being used to detect C. difficile infections in patients at St. Joseph’s Healthcare is expected to identify additional cases in an already serious outbreak.

Methods: Adult inpatients with C. difficile infection were prospectively identified, using a standard definition, between 2009 and 2015 through the Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program ...

For the latter group, C. diff testing could not be ordered for patients who had been given laxatives within 48 hours, who had been treated for C. diff 14 to 24 days prior, or who had tested ...

C. difficile is a bacteria which causes diarrhea and abdominal pain and is spread person to person. It is commonly found in the intestine and infections can be life-threatening for those taking ...

Although the initial episode of C. difficile infection resolved after a course of metronidazole (formerly the first-line therapy as per the Infectious Diseases Society of America [IDSA] guideline 2), ...

C. diff, which is short for Clostridioides difficile, is a type of bacteria that may cause serious problems in the digestive ...