Recurrent C. diff infection is when you contract a C. diff infection 2 to 8 weeks after completing treatment for a previous one. C. diff relapse is a recurrence of the same strain, while reinfection ...

Funded by a $230,979 grant, an Ohio University study tests metformin to prevent Clostridioides difficile in heart patients.

Scientists have made a breakthrough in the hunt for a new vaccine for killer hospital bug Clostridioides difficile (C. diff). University of Exeter researchers first identified a gene in C. diff ...

A new study from the University of Birmingham has shown that fecal microbiota transplants (FMT) are highly successful in treating patients with Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) infection. A new ...

This year in review of 2025 milestones in Clostridioides difficile infection features coverage of research on infection patterns presented at the American Society for Microbiology Microbe 2025 meeting ...

Outcomes of colorectal cancer hospitalization with and without coexisting nutritional anemia: A National Inpatient Sample (NIS) 2016 to 2019 database study. Effect of pertinent non-demographic ...

Mice fed a high-fat, high-protein diet were more likely to develop and die from antibiotic-driven Clostridioides difficile infections than mice fed a standard diet. In the same study, a ...

Access to the data was granted by Sanofi Pasteur, and data were retrieved and analyzed via the Vivli platform 39. We created a pooled dataset from two related vaccine trials (ClinicalTrials.gov ...

C. diff infection can cause diarrhea. While it may lead your poop to change color, there are no specific colors that are definitive evidence of having C. diff. According to the Centers for Disease ...

Validated and curated datasets are essential for studying the spread and control of infectious diseases in hospital settings, requiring clinical information on patients’ evolution and their location.

Clostridioides difficile is a notoriously nasty intestinal bug, with few effective treatments and no approved vaccines. But the same technology that enabled the first COVID-19 vaccines has shown early ...