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 ...

Nearly half a million people in the United States suffer from an intestinal infection called Clostridium difficile each year. Approximately half of those individuals become sick enough to require ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 study published in the Journal of Hospital Medicine shows clinical history, especially a history of immunodeficiency, is a better diagnosis tool for Clostridium difficile in pediatric patients than ...

(Reuters) - Drugmakers racing to develop medicines and vaccines to combat a germ that ravages the gut and kills thousands have a new challenger: the human stool. For patients hit hardest by the ...

The case could represent the first known instance of cat-to-human transmission of recurrent C. diff, though more research is needed to confirm this risk. Reading time 3 minutes A woman’s newly adopted ...

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 ...