Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study found a 45% reduction in C. diff infections among high-risk patients when the antibiotic doxycycline was used instead ...

Q: I was sick for months with debilitating pain, extreme weight loss, fatigue and loss of appetite. I was diagnosed with C. diff related to an abdominal surgery. I’m being treated with antibiotics, ...

Dear Doctors: I was sick for months with debilitating pain, extreme weight loss, fatigue and loss of appetite. I was diagnosed with C. diff related to an abdominal surgery. I’m being treated with ...

People with pneumonia who have experienced Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) infections may be able to reduce recurrences if they take doxycycline instead of the standard treatment. The study comes ...

Clostridium difficile caused nearly half a million infections in U.S. patients in 2011, and C. diff infections kill roughly 15,000 Americans each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and ...

The team measured the volatile organic compounds given out by different of strains of C. diff and have shown that many of them have a unique “smell.” Specifically, different strains show different ...

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 ...

Most cases of C. diff are treated with oral antibiotics that specifically target the infection, such as vancomycin or fidaxomicin. These medications work by eliminating the C. diff bacteria while ...

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 ...

Newly discovered iron storage 'ferrosomes' inside the bacterium C. diff -- the leading cause of hospital-acquired infections -- are important for infection in an animal model and could offer new ...

A new study on Clostridioides difficile infections finds that choosing an alternative antibiotic for high-risk patients with pneumonia can reduce infection risk. C. diff infections can be deadly, and ...