LAS VEGAS — Potentially deadly antibiotic-associated Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea (CDAD) affects 3 million Americans each year and is increasingly difficult to treat. Clinicians may want ...

The FDA on Monday granted approval to CutisPharma’s drug Firvanq to treat Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea and Staphylococcus aureus-associated intestinal inflammation (enterocolitis). Here ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Getty Images When I took antibiotics for a sinus infection, I began feeling weak and feverish, with diarrhea. I went to the ER and ...

SAN BRUNO, CA, April 30 – C. diff-associated disease (CDAD), otherwise known as severe intestinal disease brought on by the Clostridium difficile (C. diff) pathogen, has been the subject of heightened ...

Abbreviations: mITT, modified intent to treat; TTROD, time to resolution of diarrhea. *Comparing fidaxomicin and vancomycin. †Log-rank P = .0003, with versus without cancer. ‡Log-rank P = .145, with ...

When I took antibiotics for a sinus infection, I began feeling weak and feverish, with diarrhea. I went to the ER and learned I had Clostridioides difficile, an infection in the large intestine. The ...

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 ...

Using hydrogen peroxide vapor to clean rooms previously used by patients with Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea is effective in lowering C. diff-associated diarrhea rates, according to a study ...

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HealthDay News — The vast majority of patients with recurrent Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) recovered after receiving fecal transplantation via colonoscopy, study findings indicate. Among ...

The pathogen C. diff -- the most common cause of health care-associated infectious diarrhea -- can use a compound that kills the human gut's resident microbes to survive and grow, giving it a ...

Patients prescribed proton pump inhibitors had roughly double the risk of community-associated Clostridioides difficile infection compared with those not taking the drugs. Patients who use proton pump ...