Human clinical trials demonstrate that functionally targeted Omni-Biotic AB 10 prevents diarrhea, reduces C. difficile risk, ...

LAS VEGAS — Potentially deadly antibiotic-associated Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea (CDAD) affects 3 million Americans each year and is increasingly difficult to treat. Clinicians may want ...

C. diff-associated diarrhea (CDAD) places financial stress on U.S. hospitals. A study of 170,000 discharges from 477 hospitals from 2009-2011 calculated that a CDAD case can increase a hospital stay ...

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 ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a 76-year-old male who is in relatively good health. For the past six months, I have been experiencing diarrhea on and off. I initially spoke to my general physician, and he ...

Using hydrogen peroxide vapor to clean rooms previously used by patients with Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea is effective in lowering C. diff-associated diarrhea rates, according to a study ...

HealthDay News — The vast majority of patients with recurrent Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) recovered after receiving fecal transplantation via colonoscopy, study findings indicate. Among ...

Cases of Clostridioides difficile (C diff) have increasingly been reported outside of typical settings, and a survey of general practitioners in France found that many cases can be managed without ...

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 ...

Patients prescribed proton pump inhibitors had roughly double the risk of community-associated Clostridioides difficile infection compared with those not taking the drugs. Patients who use proton pump ...

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 ...