A new vaccine provides hope for treating and even preventing the highly contagious and difficult-to-treat Clostridioides difficile infection, more commonly known as C. difficile or C. diff.

Petri Jr., MD, PhD, (left) and David Tyus suggests that doctors may be able to save patients from dangerous C. difficile infections – a plague for hospitals and nursing homes – by using drugs ...

A new vaccine provides hope for treating and even preventing the highly contagious and difficult-to-treat Clostridioides difficile infection, more commonly known as C. difficile or C. diff.

In a new study, researchers at the University of Copenhagen have been cultivating "good viruses" from feces. The goal is to ...

The portion of our nervous systems responsible for the 'fight or flight' response can shape the severity of potentially deadly C. difficile infections, according to new research. The portion of ...

This bacteria, also known as C. difficile or C. diff, causes half a million infections and kills roughly 30,000 people in the ...

Twenty years ago, a respected colleague asked me to perform a “poop transplant” on a local schoolteacher with multiply recurrent C. difficile infection. I was incredulous and skeptical ...

In a new study, researchers at the University of Copenhagen have been cultivating 'good viruses' from feces. The goal is to ...

Ferring Pharmaceuticals today announced three poster presentations at the American College of Gastroenterology’s annual ...

Investigators from Perelman School of Medicine at University of Pennsylvania have developed an mRNA-LNP vaccine with promising results in preventing and controlling C. difficile infection.

We might soon have a way to prevent one of the world’s most debilitating and hard-to-treat infections in the world. Scientists are developing a cutting-edge vaccine that could stop ...