C.difficile: MERIDIAN BIOSCIENCE 1-hour test

NB:Provincial lab closed at week-ends and Holidays.

 

Clostridium difficile (C. difficile or C. diff) and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureas (MRSA) are the leading causes of nosocomial infection.¹ C. diff is an opportune pathogen, affecting primarily the elderly and the immunocompromised. Currently more than 500,000 cases of C. difficile infection (CDI) are diagnosed each year in the U.S.² In the U.S between 1999 and 2004, mortality from CDI increased from 5.7 deaths per million people to 23.7 per million.³


Current information on C. difficile disease and increasing prevalence and virulence
 

Selected Articles

	Rising case rates and mortality documented for C. difficile colitis. Medpage Today
	Clostridium difficile infection in hospitals: a brewing storm. Canadian Med Assoc J.
	Strategies to prevent Clostridium difficile infections in acute care hospitals. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol.