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 ...

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

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

An mRNA vaccine that targets several aspects of C. difficile’s ability to cause severe disease prevented major symptoms and death in mice.

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This work points to the essential role of metals for bacterial killing by phage in blood. Antibiotic treatment alters the intestinal microbiota resulting in hard-to-treat Clostridium difficile ...

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 ...

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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 ...