Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) continues to affect patients in hospitals and communities
worldwide. The spectrum of clinical disease ranges from mild diarrhoea to toxic megacolon …

Clostridium difficile is a formidable nosocomial and community-acquired pathogen, causing
clinical presentations ranging from asymptomatic colonization to self-limiting diarrhea to …

Triptolide (TP), a traditional Chinese medicine, has been reported to be effective in the
treatment of autoimmune diseases and exerting antineoplastic activity in several human …

Importance Clostridium difficileis a major cause of health care–associated infection, but
disagreement between diagnostic tests is an ongoing barrier to clinical decision making and …

Banaei and colleagues express concern that Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) may be over
diagnosed using PCR given that in their study only a third of patients had clinically …

Summary Background Diagnosis of Clostridium difficile infection is controversial because of
many laboratory methods, compounded by two reference methods. Cytotoxigenic culture …

In this review we examine the literature related to emerging technologies that will help to
reshape the clinical microbiology laboratory. These topics include nucleic acid amplification …

Previously published guidelines are available that provide comprehensive
recommendations for detecting and preventing healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). The …

Clostridioides difficile (formerly Clostridium) is a major cause of healthcare associated
diarrhea, and is increasingly present in the community. Historically, C difficile infection was …

Objective Previously published guidelines provided comprehensive recommendations for
detecting and preventing healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). The intent of this …