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2. Clostridioides difficile infection - Wikipedia

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   Clostridioides difficile infection [5] (CDI or C-diff), also known as Clostridium difficile infection, is a symptomatic infection due to the spore-forming bacterium Clostridioides difficile. [6] Symptoms include watery diarrhea, fever, nausea, and abdominal pain. [1] It makes up about 20% of cases of antibiotic-associated diarrhea. [1]

3. Clostridioides difficile - Wikipedia

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   Clostridioides difficile (syn. Clostridium difficile) is a bacterium known for causing serious diarrheal infections, and may also cause colon cancer. [4] [5] It is known also as C. difficile, or C. diff (/ s iː d ɪ f /), and is a Gram-positive species of spore-forming bacteria. [6]

4. Antibiotic-associated diarrhea - Wikipedia

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   Clostridioides difficile, also known more commonly as C. diff, accounts for 10 to 20% of antibiotic-associated diarrhea cases, because the antibiotics administered for the treatment of certain disease processes such as inflammatory colitis also inadvertently kill a large portion of the gut flora, the normal flora that is usually present within the bowel.

5. Fecal microbiota transplant - Wikipedia

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   [12] [13] Most people with CDI recover with one FMT treatment. [8] [14] [15] A 2009 study found that fecal microbiota transplant was an effective and simple procedure that was more cost-effective than continued antibiotic administration and reduced the incidence of antibiotic resistance. [16]

6. This Is What It Really Means When Your Poop Is Green - AOL

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   Antibiotics. As if you didn’t have enough to worry about while you battle the aforementioned salmonella or C. diff, antibiotic treatments can also turn your stool green. “This is because ...

7. Fidaxomicin - Wikipedia

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   Fidaxomicin, sold under the brand name Dificid (by Merck) among others, is the first member of a class of narrow spectrum macrocyclic antibiotic drugs called tiacumicins. [3] It is a fermentation product obtained from the actinomycete Dactylosporangium aurantiacum subspecies hamdenesis .