An inflammation of the colon associated with C. difficile — C. difficile colitis — has increased nearly 50 percent from 2001-2005 to 2006-2010, according to a study in the Journal of the American ...

Clostridium difficile infections elevate the risks for colectomy, mortality and postoperative complications after a colectomy for patients with ulcerative colitis, according to NEJM Journal Watch.

Four patients with severe disease were cured after receiving the new broad-spectrum antibiotic tigecycline. When patients with Clostridium difficile colitis do not respond to usual treatment with ...

Risk for Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) infection wasn't any greater with vedolizumab (Entyvio) versus anti-tumor necrosis factor (TNF) agents for ulcerative colitis, a researcher reported. In a ...

Outcomes of colorectal cancer hospitalization with and without coexisting nutritional anemia: A National Inpatient Sample (NIS) 2016 to 2019 database study. Effect of pertinent non-demographic ...

Panelist discusses how recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection results from persistent microbiome disruption, where antibiotic-induced dysbiosis enables bacterial overgrowth and toxin production.

Q: I'm not sure you'll take this question because of the subject matter, but it seems pretty important. Our dad had a fecal transplant as a last-ditch treatment for C. diff (Clostridioides difficile), ...

New research from the University of Virginia School of Medicine's William A. Petri Jr., MD, PhD, (left) and David Tyus suggests that doctors may be able to save patients from dangerous C. difficile ...

Ulcers in the colon are usually due to a condition like inflammatory bowel disease or an infection. But some medications or procedures can also cause colon ulcers. A colon ulcer is an open sore that ...