C. Difficile

In an exclusive interview with Contagion®, Maureen Spencer, Accelerate Diagnostics, discusses different strategies to prevent and control C. difficile in health care facilities.

Richard Haupt, MD, MPH, explains the risk factors for Clostridium difficile infection.

A testing stewardship effort found that using a “hard stop” alert system may help reduce inappropriate C. difficile testing.

Paul Feuerstadt, MD, sheds light on the estimated burden of C. difficile infection in the United States.

Norman B. Javitt, MD, PhD, explains how antibiotics can impact bile acid composition and result in Clostridium difficile infection.

Barley Chironda, RPN, CIC, discusses current infection control measures taken to prevent C. difficile and the reasons why they are falling short.

Hospital employees are increasingly using hospital infection rates to highlight gaps in training, education, and staffing.

Sahil Khanna, MBBS, MS, provides a brief overview of the history of fecal microbiota transplantation.

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Stuart Johnson, MD, discusses the disadvantages to some of the current approaches used to treat C. difficile.

Ferric Fang, MD, explains the major challenges associated with diagnosing Clostridium difficile infection.

Dale N. Gerding, MD, discusses different methods used to prevent CDI recurrence.

Edmond Hooker, MD, DrPH, discusses multiple factors that put patients at increased risk of getting C. difficile.

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Can we track Clostridium difficile infections to see how patient movements result in exposures?

Updated guidance from the CDC on Zika, candidemia infections in patients with C. difficile infections, and more topics made up our Top 5 articles for the month of October 2017.

C. difficile prevention is usually thought of in terms of environmental disinfection and health care worker hand hygiene; what about the patient's role?

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A recent study found that a sepsis care bundle program implemented in The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York coincided with an increase in antibiotic prescriptions and higher rates of Clostridium difficile infections.

The message for clinicians is to be vigilant. Look for candidemia and C. difficile infection occurring together.

A recent study has shown that, compared with other antibiotics, tetracyclines may be associated with a reduced risk of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI).

About 500,000 Americans fall ill from Clostridium difficile infections every year.