Clostridium difficile infection—commonly called C. diff—causes diarrhea, abdominal pain, and fever and is lethal in about 6% of cases in the U.S. The disease is highly contagious, but in ...

To track infections throughout the health care setting, the researchers sampled for C. diff from nearly 200 patients across two intensive care units (ICUs), as well as collecting thousands of samples ...

Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI or often C. diff) is a potentially catastrophic bacterial gut infection that affects 500,000 Americans each year. Among those afflicted, nearly 120,000 ...

Researchers used the mRNA-LNP vaccine platform — the same that provided the COVID-19 vaccines — to create the C. diff vaccine. “Our approach was to create a multivalent mRNA vaccine that ...

About half a million people in the U.S. contract C. diff every year, often from hospitals—and, even once treated, it’s common for the microbe to reinfect patients again and again. Now ...

A team of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania took a new approach, using mRNA technology to design a multipronged vaccine that targets several proteins that underlie C. difficile’s ...

Boulder, Colorado-based biotech Crestone is going after C. diff with a new antimicrobial, CRS3123. In a phase 2 study, the company reports that its drug cured 28 of 29 patients within 12 days ...

The TGA has now also approved Nanocyn® for use against Candida auris (C. auris) and Clostritium Difficile (C. diff.) in ten minutes. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has previously ...

Minnie Hatch, 29, from Salt Lake City, had painful stomach cramps, and other symptoms for months before finding out she had Clostridioides difficile, or C. diff. These bacteria can grow out of ...

If your diarrhea from C. diff is very severe, get medical help quickly. Severe diarrhea can lead to life-threatening dehydration. If you have a condition, such as irritable bowel disease (IBD ...

For the latter group, C. diff testing could not be ordered for patients who had been given laxatives within 48 hours, who had been treated for C. diff 14 to 24 days prior, or who had tested ...

C. diff is a type of bacteria that can cause diarrhea, abdominal pain, and tenderness. It is commonly treated with antibiotics such as fidaxomicin (Dificid) and vancomycin (Firvanq). C.