difficile

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The fecal transplant puts back the normal bacteria into your colon, attempting to crowd out the clostridium difficile bacteria.

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Difficult.

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adjective

Difficult.

adjective

Hard to work with; stubborn.

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Core meanings and parts of speech for difficile.

adjective

Difficult.

adjective

Hard to work with; stubborn.

Example sentences

The fecal transplant puts back the normal bacteria into your colon, attempting to crowd out the clostridium difficile bacteria.

The transplants cured the C difficile infection, but he noticed that their Parkinson's symptoms were significantly reduced.

A Nature review looking at fecal transplants for C difficile cautions that a strong placebo effect is common with invasive procedures.

It is specifically meant to treat one particular problem - a clostridium difficile infection.

Clostridium difficile is an opportunistic infection that often takes hold after someone takes a course of antibiotics that kills all the helpful bacteria.

This woman was being treated for recurrent Clostridium difficile, not obesity.

I'm curious why you were given metronidazole: was it for Lyme disease or did you develop a C difficile infection from other antibiotics?

(Comme tu es Français, je me permets...) Je suis sûr que les friends vont aimer, mais les faire adhérer et suivre, c'est la partie difficile de cette affaire!

Quote examples

I found a story in Financial Times [2] reporting, "Teixobactin quickly kills Gram-positive bacteria, which are prominent in discussions of antibiotic resistance, including Clostridium difficile, Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Staphylococcus aureus.