Updated guidelines recommend fidaxomicin as the first-line agent for C difficile infection, but researchers found use in US ...

When those bacteria die — for instance, as a result of antibiotic treatment for an unrelated infection — the large intestine ...

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 ...

diff. Another risk factor for C. diff is being on antibiotics. Antibiotics, while helpful in curing bacterial infections, can wipe out the good bacteria in the gut, making it easier for bacteria ...

Adults with three or more diarrheal stools (defined as liquid or unformed) per day or six or more diarrheal stools in a 36-hour period and a positive result for C. difficile toxin by enzyme ...

Vancomycin is considereed as a broad-spectrum antibiotic, which means that it commonly disrupts the gut microbiome. There are about 500,000 cases of C. difficile each year; about one in six people ...

In the period spanning 2017-2021, a mere 12 new antibiotics entered the market, with only one capable of targeting all the ...

European researchers have noted that tigecycline (Tygacil), a broad-spectrum antibiotic recently FDA ... has excellent in vitro activity against C. difficile. Now, they report success using ...

Antibiotic treatment alters the intestinal microbiota resulting in hard-to-treat Clostridium difficile infections C. difficile produces toxins that damage intestinal cells and cause inflammation, ...

However, if these people fall ill and are prescribed broad spectrum antibiotics C-diff can become a problem – that’s because the antibiotics wipe out the normal gut bacteria, allowing the ...

Those patients had lowered microbial diversity after receiving combinations of antibiotics, radiation and chemotherapy. The patients who didn’t develop C. difficile after the transplant were ...

(Stollman said he only uses the treatment as a “last resort” for C. diff patients who have already tried multiple courses of antibiotics.) Meanwhile, clinics promising quick cures have begun ...