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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.

The portion of our nervous systems responsible for the "fight or flight" response can shape the severity of potentially deadly C. difficile infections, new research from the University of Virginia ...

This leaves them open to bacterial infections such as C. difficile, which infects the gut and releases toxins that cause a variety of ailments including diarrhea, severe cramping and in some cases ...

With no approved vaccines to date, C. diff causes nearly 30,000 deaths each year in the US, and recurrent infections with the bacterium make up 10%-15% of all hospital-treated infections.

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

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 ...

The ongoing trial is testing the therapy – RBX2660 – as a treatment for Clostridioides difficile infection or C. diff, a bacterium that causes diarrhoea and inflammation in the colon and is a ...

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 ...

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