A new, epidemic strain of C. difficile is proving alarmingly deadly, and new research from the University of Virginia School of Medicine not only explains why but also suggests a way to stop it. Until ...

PhD student Carrie A. Cowardin was working in the lab of Bill Petri, MD, PhD, chief of the University of Virginia’s Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health in Charlottesville, when ...

A new, epidemic strain of C. difficile is proving alarmingly deadly, and new research not only explains why but also suggests a way to stop it. A new, epidemic strain of C. difficile is proving ...

Hospital acquired infections are a serious public health concern. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the bacteria Clostridium difficile is estimated to have caused around half a ...

A study published by PNAS explains breakthrough research around designing drugs that target C. diff bacterial infections that result in 15,000 deaths in the U.S. annually. The bacterium is potentially ...

Loo VG, Poirier L, Miller MA, et al. A predominantly clonal multi-institutional outbreak of Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea with high morbidity and mortality. N Engl J Med.

Future Microbiol. 2012;7(8):945-957. Patients infected with PCR ribotype 027 were found to have more severe diarrhea, higher mortality and more reoccurrences of symptoms. [44] It has been thought that ...

Clostridium difficile infection is one of the most common healthcare-associated infections in adults in the United States. Older Americans are especially vulnerable to CDI, 2 and this infection has ...

In a hamster model of Clostridium difficile, infection with C. difficile strains producing either toxin A or toxin B caused fulminant disease, according to a research team from the University of ...

Researchers from the University of Maryland School of Medicine and their colleagues have identified the structure of the most lethal toxin produced by certain strains of Clostridium difficile bacteria ...