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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The patient's only antibiotic exposure was to trimethoprim ... the prevalence and virulence of this new strain of C. difficile and to determine if person-to-person transmission is now occurring ...

Crucially, the drug doesn’t involve the use of antibiotics, which are the standard treatment for C. diff but are known to disrupt the healthy balance of the trillions of organisms in the gut ...

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 ...

(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 ...