Dear Doctors: I was sick for months with debilitating pain, extreme weight loss, fatigue and loss of appetite. I was diagnosed with C. diff related to an abdominal surgery. I’m being treated with ...

As Clostridium difficile creates a significant economic and morbidity burden for hospitals, researchers with Cleveland Clinic and the University of Texas School of Public Health in Houston sought to ...

Affecting roughly half a million Americans each year, bacterial infections caused by Clostridioides difficile—commonly known ...

Researchers from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville have discovered a type of gut bacteria that could prove effective where other types of helpful bacteria have failed in the fight against ...

A novel vaccination approach developed by Vanderbilt Health researchers cleared the harmful gut bacterium Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) in an animal model of infection. An experimental vaccine ...

Charles Darkoh, Ph.D., a researcher at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) School of Public Health, was recently awarded a five-year, $1.9 million R01 grant by the ...

The antibiotic vancomycin, recommended as first-line treatment for infection caused by the deadly superbug C. difficile (C. diff), may not be living up to its promise, according to new research. The ...

Clostridioides difficile/Clostridium difficile (C. diff) is a bacterial infection and is the most common cause of healthcare-associated diarrhea. C. diff has two distinct presentations, primary and ...

Clostridium difficile bacteria, computer illustration. C. difficile is a normal inhabitant of the human intestine, but it can become a pathogen when antibiotics disrupt the normal intestinal flora and ...

Twin Cities biotech start-up Rebiotix has treated its first patient in what the company hopes will be the last leg of the race to develop the first approved microbial therapy derived from human waste ...

In her early 70s, Freda Pyles had endless energy: swimming classes, gardening, beekeeping with her husband, harvesting hundreds of pounds of honey and gifting it to their friends.2 In September 2021, ...

A recurrence of C. diff is common after an initial episode, with about 20% of people having a recurrence. A recurrence is ...