Clostridium difficile

British

/ dɪˈfɪsɪli, ˌdɪfɪˈsiːl /

noun

a faecal organism endemic in hospitals and responsible for the majority of hospital-acquired cases of diarrhoea in elderly patients sometimes shortened to C.difficile C.diff

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Fecal microbe transplants from healthy donors can treat patients with recurrent Clostridium difficile infections.

From Science Daily • Oct. 13, 2023

That means they can kill off good bacteria and lead to the overgrowth of potentially dangerous ones such as Clostridium difficile or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

From Scientific American • Oct. 5, 2023

People with recurrent illness caused by hard-to-treat bacterium Clostridium difficile can be offered faecal transplants, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has said.

From BBC • Aug. 30, 2022

Pictured here is a scanning electron micrograph of Clostridium difficile, a Gram- positive, rod-shaped bacterium that causes severe diarrhea.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

Within months, outbreaks of antibiotic-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Clostridium difficile, and E. coli are observed in patients around the world.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson

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