Antibiotics prescribed by dentists may contribute to the growing problem of Clostridium difficile (C. diff), a serious and potentially deadly infection that causes severe diarrhea, suggests research ...

During my family's annual vacation last year, I got COVID-19. Frustrated by having to cancel so many plans, I remember thinking, "At least it can't get much worse than this." As a nurse and mom though ...

Clostridium difficile bacteria, computer illustration. C. difficile is a normal inhabitant of the human intestine, but it can become a pathogen when antibiotics disrupt the normal intestinal flora and ...

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

Researchers from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and North CarolinaStateUniversity at Raleigh found primary bile acids in the small intestine allowed harmful bacteria to grow regardless of ...

In the study, 2.8 percent of the hospitalized patients were infected with C. diff, and 3 percent had evidence of the bacteria but no symptoms of colonization. The study showed that use of antibiotics, ...

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 ...

Antibiotics and proton pump inhibitors may not be the best mix, according to a study published Jan. 24 in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. People who took an antibiotic when they were taking ...

Nearly half a million people in the United States suffer from an intestinal infection called Clostridium difficile each year. Approximately half of those individuals become sick enough to require ...

Some people will get repeat infections from Clostridium difficile (C. diff). They may develop the same symptoms they had before such as diarrhea, stomach pain, and loss of appetite. However, the only ...