C. difficile

In contrast, a third of those on the placebo had diarrhea, and 17 percent came down with a case of C. difficile.

Wash your hands thoroughly after visiting a hospital. Use soap and water; alcohol-based hand gels do not kill C. difficile.

C. difficile isolates were characterized by ribotyping and multi locus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis to determine relatedness.

C. difficile is one of many bacteria which can live in the human gut without causing health problems.

Conclusions. Aerosolization of C. difficile occurs commonly but sporadically in patients with symptomatic CDI.

We measured airborne and environmental C. difficile adjacent to patients with symptomatic C. difficile infection (CDI).

Treatment of C. difficile diarrhea with metronidazole or vancomycin is highly effective at relieving symptoms.

Clostridium species are a potential cause of diarrhea in dogs. Associated species include C. perfringens and C. difficile.

Most people exposed to C. difficile will not get sick from it, nor will most people who take antibiotics.

S. study suggests that the drugs may also increase risk of infection with C. difficile, a bacterium that can cause severe diarrhea.

They hope to use their findings to develop a treatment for C. difficile.

However, the study authors recommend using soap and water whenever contamination with C. difficile is suspected.

The study of preventive and treatment of C. Butyricum to toxigenic C. Difficile infection