Study reveals new details about how bacterial toxins cause life-threatening colitis - Mirage News
CDC/Jennifer Oosthuizen Medical illustration of Clostridioides difficile bacteria. FINDINGS Research led by scientists from UCLA and Harvard...
PLOS Papers on Conjunctival Melanoma C. Difficile Phylogenomics Drug-Resistant TB - GenomeWeb
In PLOS this week: genomic and transcriptomic analysis of conjunctival melanoma, phylogenetic analysis of Clostridioides difficile, and more.
Anastomotic Leak is Increased With Clostridium difficile Infection After Colectomy: Machine Learning-Augmented Propensity Score Modified Analysis of 46 735 Patients - PubMed
This is the first known nationally representative study on CDI and AL, mortality, and length of stay among colectomy patients. Using advanced machine learning and PS analysis, we provide evidence that suggests CDI increases AL in a dose-dependent manner with increasing ASA Class.
No Relationship Between Recurrent C Diff and Anti-Toxin Antibodies | HCPLive
The investigators called their findings the “opposite of what was expected.”