Clostridium difficile-associated disease (CDAD), often associated with antibiotic use, is recognized as a major avoidable cause of illness and death in hospital patients. CDAD also occurs in the ...

In one study, researchers from Sinai Hospital in Baltimore retrospectively analyzed the changing epidemiological trends of patients with Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea (CDAD ...

The study, "A Meta‐analysis of 16 Observational Studies on Proton‐Pump Inhibitor Use and Risk of Clostridium difficile Associated Diarrhea" investigated the association between PPIs and CDAD ...

In the past, Clostridium difficile-associated disease (CDAD) was thought of mainly as a nosocomial disease associated with the use of broad-spectrum antibiotics, but its epidemiology seems to be ...

Clostridium difficile-associated disease is receiving ... difficile-associated disease (CDAD) may result in watery diarrhea, fever, malaise and leukocytosis. More severe disease or complications ...

according to a subanalysis of patients with cancer and Clostridium difficile–associated diarrhea (CDAD). In addition, concomitant antibiotics had less effect on clinical cure rate with ...

Patients on PPIs who develop persistent diarrhea should be tested for CDAD (Clostridium difficile associated diarrhea), says the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). If you are taking PPIs ...

WILMINGTON, Mass., Jan. 29, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- CutisPharma announced today that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved FIRVANQ™ (vancomycin hydrochloride) for oral solution ...

Diarrhea Word The FDA has granted MGB-BP-3 (MGB Biopharma) Qualified Infectious Disease Product (QIDP) designation for the treatment of Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea (CDAD).

difficile-Tied Diarrhea in Cancer For patients with cancer with Clostridium difficile-associated ... blind trials involving 1,105 patients with CDAD, 183 of whom had cancer, to treatment with ...

The study, "A Meta‐analysis of 16 Observational Studies on Proton‐Pump Inhibitor Use and Risk of Clostridium difficile Associated Diarrhea" investigated the association between PPIs and CDAD ...

Clostridium difficile shares an important identification ... difficile-associated disease (CDAD) had occurred mostly in children and adults who had significant exposure to a health care ...