A fecal microbiota transplant (FMT) not only cured a case of Clostridium difficile (C. diff) infection in a 66 year old man; it eliminated populations of multi-drug resistant organisms both in the ...

Federally funded research published this week could offer scientists the building blocks needed to create drugs to cure Clostridium difficile. Researchers at Baltimore-based University of Maryland ...

The big breakthrough in C. diff treatment was reported by the New England Journal of Medicine in 2013. Researchers in the Netherlands conducted a randomized controlled trial comparing the ...

The researchers conducted a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial involving 2,655 adults in 30 countries around the world. The study participants were suffering from primary or recurrent ...

Transplanting faecal matter from one person to another — the thought might turn your stomach, but it could be lifesaving. Some doctors are using the procedure to repopulate the gut with healthy ...

The bacterium Clostridium difficile — otherwise known as C. diff — spreads within intensive care units more than three times as much as previously thought, according to a study published on April 4 in ...

Using a diverse human gut community, researchers investigated how gut microbiota interspecies interactions affected the response of Clostridioides difficile to vancomycin and metronidazole. Findings ...

Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is considered to be the main cause of bacterial infectious diarrhea in nosocomial settings. Since the beginning of the new century a continuous rise in 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 ...