C. Difficile

A global study of C. difficile isolates worldwide found a very high prevalence of the bacteria on shoe soles.

With fecal microbiota transplants (FMT) becoming a potential emerging therapy for these patients, here are some aspects to consider when treating.

Purified nisin is effective at killing Clostridioides difficile, a recent ex vivo study demonstrated, opening up the potential to use the bacteriocin as a treatment.

What are the efforts being made with antibiotic stewardship and treatments, and what areas in clinical care do medical professionals want to see improvements.

The company’s RBX2660, administered as a single dose, demonstrated superiority over standard of care for reducing Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) recurrence.

This event will be a free, virtual event in July with expert speakers and survivors.

Investigators apply guidelines into practical management strategies.

The organizations set out 3 recommendations for initial and recurrent C diff treatment.

During the COVID-19 surge last year, the federal government stopped the required reporting on healthcare-associated infections (HAI) thus leaving an absence of data and important information on HAI. One study examined the effect the initial pandemic surge had on Clostridioides Difficile infection (CDI) in one hospital.

An assessment of the frontline agents show similarities infection cure and recurrence rates at 30 days.

Ferring Pharmaceuticals and Rebiotix reported results from a trial on their therapy, RBX2660, which shows promise as a Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) treatment.

A study looked at hospital admissions of Medicare patients and saw a large percentage of recurrent Clostridioides difficile infections (rCDI) as the primary diagnosis.

An effort to increase stewardship showed that 5-day and 10-day prescription stop dates for antibiotics did little to influence actual therapy length and outcomes.

A large retrospective analysis of Medicare patients offers a glimpse of the incidence rates of this patient population and the burdens associated with it.

A meta-analysis suggest the 2 first-line C diff therapies provide similar outcomes, yet differ in recurrent infection risk.

Cancer patients are more than twice as likely to acquire hospital-associated Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia (HA-SAB) and Clostridioides difficile infection (HA-CDI) than others, a new study from Australia found.

The proportion of cases with CDI in perforated appendicitis was found to be greater in comparison to the non-perforated cases.

Treatment with rifampin shows it can increase the chances for recurrent Clostridium difficile (C diff) infection according to investigators in Mexico.

The discovery of C diff’s ability to harness heme to shield itself from the body’s immune responses hopefully brings a new dimension to the fight against the damaging pathogen.

CDI prevalence among those hospitalized with a COVID-19 infection was not found to be increased despite more use of antibiotics.

Experts discuss the bacteria’s transmission in the community setting, how to reduce disease and economic burdens, and ways to improve quality of life for patients.

A study of more than 400 hospitals offers takeaways for creating antibiotic stewardship programs in hospitals around the country.

With labs blinding a specific panel, a C diff diagnosis can be masked and missed.

Updated review and meta-analysis identifies the classes of antibiotics most strongly linked to healthcare facility-associated Clostridioides difficile infection.

This prognostic marker might not be an adequate reason to test for Clostridium difficile in hospitalized patients.

Oral vancomycin prophylaxis was found by a small study to prevent C diff infection in thoracic transplant patients.

The study determined that acid-base disturbances like can influence the risk of a C diff infection after cardiac surgery is performed

Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is a leading cause of healthcare-associated infections and the clinical spectrum ranges from asymptomatic colonization to toxic megacolon and fulminant colitis.