TUESDAY, August 5, 2025 (HealthDay News) — C. diff, which is short for Clostridioides difficile, is a type of bacteria that ...

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

Newly released practice guidelines for Clostridium difficile infection, or CDI, in both adults and children include changes in diagnostics and antibiotic therapy. The guidelines, published in ...

Researchers have identified two distinct mechanisms of drug resistance in C. difficile, but its ability to withstand ...

EP: 1. The Role of Testing for C Difficile in Clinical Practice EP: 2. Utilizing Antibiotics in Treatment of C Difficile EP: 3. Examining FMT for Patients With Recurrent C Difficile infections EP: 4.

Most brands of hospital testing kits detect a C. difficile toxin (CDT) in a patient's stool sample. However the researchers show in the Review that current tests on the market can have proportions ...

Singulex’s Clarity C. diff toxin A/B assay, a rapid C. diff toxin test, has made its commercial debut, the company announced. “The Clarity toxin A/B assay offers a new approach to testing for ...

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 ...

Liu and colleagues compared C. difficile PCR test utilization, hospital-onset C. difficile infection (CDI) rates and clinical outcomes before and after the implementation of a computerized ...

The Singulex Clarity C. diff toxins A/B assay demonstrated reactivity to common C. difficile strains, did not show cross-reactivity to common gastrointestinal pathogens, was robust against common ...

CDI testing and CDI positivity were determined by reviewing the medical records of patients enrolled into the registry and diagnosed with IBD. According to the study, of 320 enrolled patients, 227 ...