I'm very sorry to hear about your wife's condition - C. diff is a nasty and unpleasant infection at the best of times, and recurrent C. diff is downright terrib

I'm very sorry to hear about your wife's condition - C. diff is a nasty and unpleasant infection at the best of times, and recurrent C. diff is downright terrible. There's some new drugs - evidence for example that Fidaxomicin may work better than Vanco, and increasing use of fecal transplant and other techniques. My dissertation was on the effect of routine fecal transplant in post-CDI patients to prevent recurrence, using some models based on diffeq transmission models (but stochastic rather than deterministic).