C. diff is a horrible disease that can cause significant morbidity. It can and often does recur and kills around 30,000 Americans every year. We have made progress in prevention and treatment, but ...

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 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 from ...

Christian John Lillis, cofounder and executive director of the Peggy Lillis Foundation for C difficile Education & Advocacy, explained how FDA-approved microbiome-based therapeutics help to treat and ...

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 ...

In vitro, treatment with UDCA significantly decreased C. diff spore germination, growth and toxin activity. In the mouse model, pre-treatment with UDCA had some effect on bacterial growth, but 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 ...

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has recommended faecal microbiota transplant (FMT) as a treatment option for those with recurrent Clostridium difficile (C diff) infections ...

A new study from the University of Birmingham has shown that Faecal Microbiota Transplants (FMT) are highly successful in treating patients with Clostridioides difficile (C.diff) infection. Published ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The global clostridium difficile treatment market size is expected to grow by USD 159.87 million as per Technavio. This marks a significant market growth compared to the 2019 ...

You may not yet have heard of the bacterium Clostridium difficile (C. dif.), but in the next few years it will likely become a household name, as well known as Staph and Strep. C. dif. causes a severe ...