Can ulcerative colitis lead to a C. diff infection? And what are C. diff and ulcerative colitis symptoms? Learn more about these conditions.

Clostridium difficile is a very contagious bacterial infection that causes symptoms such as frequent watery diarrhea, abdominal cramping, nausea, fever, blood in your stool, and a rapid heartbeat.

When metronidazole or vancomycin fail, the new broad-spectrum antibiotic tigecycline may be worth a try in patients with severe refractory C. difficile colitis.

Clostridium difficile infections are terrible, because they are both debilitating and very costly. But researchers are now considering the use of an unexpected tool that might prevent these infections ...

Pseudomembranous colitis (PMC) is an antibiotic associated severe inflammatory condition of the colon caused by an overgrowth of Clostridium difficile (C. difficile), a toxin producing bacterium.

Most patients suffering from C difficile colitis can be treated with antibiotic therapy, but up to 10% of patients eventually require colectomy. The authors proposed a less aggressive surgical ...

Although infection with Clostridium difficile accounts for only 10 to 20 percent of the cases of antibiotic-associated diarrhea, it accounts for the majority of cases of colitis associated with ...

The rate of cases of colitis (colon inflammation) caused by the bacteria Clostridium difficile more than doubled among patients hospitalized in the United States between 1993 and 2003, and the ...

Clostridium difficile, also called C. difficile or C. diff, is a bacterium that mainly infects the large intestine and causes diarrhea and other life-threatening intestinal disorders.

C. diff, short for Clostridium difficile, is a form of infectious bacterium. It can cause a range of symptoms but most commonly results in colitis, which is the inflammation of the wall of your colon.

Stool analysis revealed 10 to 12 erythrocytes and five to six leukocytes. However, there was no evidence of amoebas or Clostridium difficile A+B. Complete blood count and CRP were within normal ...