Clostridium difficile infection is one of the most common healthcare-associated infections in adults in the United States. Older Americans are especially vulnerable to CDI, 2 and this infection has ...

Singulex’s Clarity C. diff toxin A/B assay, a rapid C. diff toxin test, has made its commercial debut, the company announced. “The Clarity toxin A/B assay offers a new approach to testing for C. diff ...

ORLANDO — A Clostridium difficile infection — a challenge in any patient — can be particularly difficult in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Even testing for infection can be a problem, ...

Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center have obtained the crystal structure of a toxin from the bacterium Clostridium difficile ("C. diff")—the leading cause of hospital-acquired diarrhea ...

Clostridium difficile infection is the most common cause of antibiotic-associated diarrhea in developed countries. Researchers have discovered how the C. diff toxin B recognizes the human Frizzled ...

A new article details a research breakthrough that provides a promising starting point for scientists to create drugs that can cure C. diff -- a virulent health care-associated infection that causes ...

A new study, led by researchers from the University of California, Irvine (UCI), uncovers the long-sought-after, three-dimensional structure of a toxin primarily responsible for devastating ...

Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is considered to be the main cause of bacterial infectious diarrhea in nosocomial settings. Since the beginning of the new century a continuous rise in the ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification of a segment of the toxin A gene was used to detect toxigenic Clostridium difficile directly ...

A study published by PNAS explains breakthrough research around designing drugs that target C. diff bacterial infections that result in 15,000 deaths in the U.S. annually. The bacterium is potentially ...

SAARA M. KOTILA, TARJA PITKÄNEN, JON BRAZIER, ERKKI EEROLA, JARI JALAVA, MARKKU KUUSI, EIJA KÖNÖNEN, JANNE LAINE, ILKKA T. MIETTINEN, RISTO VUENTO, ANNI VIROLAINEN ...