C Difficile Infection

May 04, 2020

Article

The adjusted estimate of the burden of hospitalizations related to C. diff infections decreased by 24% between 2011-2017.

March 05, 2020

Article

Low fecal intestinal secretory immunoglobin A is commonly found in infants of mothers in the antepartum and persistent depression trajectories.

January 15, 2020

Article

A new study finds women and patients with a recent history of hospitalization were more likely to be colonized with C. difficile.

November 06, 2019

Article

Miguel Regueiro, MD and George Khoudari, MD, both of the Cleveland Clinic, discuss predictors of colectomies for IBD-patients.

October 30, 2019

Article

FMT was highly successful for the treatment of recurrent C difficile, and the cure rate was similar between groups who did and did not receive loperamide prior to the procedure.

October 29, 2019

Article

Compared to hospitalized patients with ulcerative colitis but without C diff infection, hospitalized patients with ulcerative colitis and C diff experienced increased mortality.

October 28, 2019

Article

In a new poster presented at the annual ACG meeting in San Antonio, researchers compare morbidity and mortality for ulcerative colitis patients with or without C. diff or CMV infections.

August 08, 2019

Article

Early exposure to C. difficile helps infants stave off infection later in life.

July 29, 2019

Article

New study identifies average cost and hospital length increase for hospital-acquired C. difficile.

July 17, 2019

Article

New evidence from a cumulative RCT analysis suggests irritable bowel syndrome patients do not definitively benefit from FMT treatment.