PENSACOLA, Fla. (WEAR) — Half a million people this year will get an infection called C. diff. It ranges from uncomfortable to life-threatening. And in more and more cases, doctors are turning to an ...

Fidaxomicin should be the antibiotic of choice when treating adults with Clostridioides difficile infection, according to new guidance from the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the Society ...

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 ...

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 ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a warning after a patient died following a fecal transplant procedure to treat C. difficile. Clostridium difficile is an infection of the intestines that ...

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. The ...

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 ...

The Food and Drug Administration has approved a fecal microbiota pill to treat recurrent infections caused by Clostridium difficile (C. diff), an antibiotic-resistant bacterium deemed an urgent threat ...

A recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report found 75 percent of patients in a group of 10,342 cases were already colonized with C. difficile at the time of hospital admission, according ...

Fecal transplantation through colonoscopy may be an effective treatment for recurrent C. difficile infections, according to research published in Gastroenterology. For this study, researchers reviewed ...

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 ...

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 ...