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.
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, according to new research. The portion of ...
Our intestines are home to 100 trillion microorganisms — some beneficial ... Older adults with weakened immune systems, for example, suffer from life-threatening infections with C. difficile. Today, ...
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 ...
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.
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.