Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . However, this finding did not reach statistical significance, the researchers noted. “This is the first ...

Clostridioides difficile (C. difficile) is a leading cause of illness and death, especially for frail and hospitalized Americans. Now, a new study suggests that the leading antibiotic used to fight it ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . FMT appeared as effective as vancomycin in curing first-time C. difficile infection. Findings show FMT has ...

C. difficile infection recurrence rates were numerically lower with vancomycin than with placebo, though the difference was not significant. However, the results could be clinically meaningful, an ...

Fidaxomicin should be the antibiotic of choice when treating adults with Clostridioides difficile infection, according to new guidance from the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the Society ...

Thirty-day all-cause mortality among patients with severe Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) was significantly lower when vancomycin was used as first-line therapy compared with metronidazole, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Treatment with ridinilazone was found to significantly decrease the rate of recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) compared with vancomycin. Treatment with ridinilazone was found to ...

Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT), shown to be effective in the treatment of recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI), also shows significant benefit in the treatment of primary CDI, ...

Preventative oral vancomycin reduces the incidence of C. difficle during allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, according to a study by Pittsburgh-based University of Pennsylvania ...

A study has linked initial vancomycin monotherapy to higher rates of Clostridium difficile infection in patients with inflammatory bowel disease, according to a report by Internal Medicine News. The ...