As Clostridium difficile creates a significant economic and morbidity burden for hospitals, researchers with Cleveland Clinic and the University of Texas School of Public Health in Houston sought to ...
Researchers at the American Society for Microbiology’s 53rd Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy have reported that low-dose antibiotic treatments appear to be as effective ...
Fecal microbiota transplantation has become one of the most effective treatments for recurrent Clostridioides difficile infections, but its long-term role in gastroenterology may hinge on moving ...
AstraZeneca (AZN) announced an update on their ongoing clinical study. Study Overview AstraZeneca is running a Phase IIb study titled “A Phase IIb, Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo-controlled Study ...
Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT), shown to be effective in the treatment of recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI), also shows significant benefit in the treatment of primary CDI, ...
As the effectiveness of antibiotics meant to fight the deadly superbug Clostridioides difficile, or C. diff, wanes, a research team at the University of Houston is seeing positive results of a new ...
Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) is a stealthy threat. It infects more than 500,000 people in the United States each year, and kills up to 30,000. It is a leading cause of health-care-associated ...