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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

Research has shown bleaches used in hospital are not effective against C. diff One of the main types of disinfectant used to clean hospital scrubs and surfaces does not work against a common ...

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.

But in C. difficile cases, the nervous system can have a hyperactive response that becomes part of the problem, and UVA's new research explains why. Related Stories ...