Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Exposure to a contaminated nearly doubles a patient’s risk for hospital-onset C. difficile infection. This ...

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For patients with the difficult-to-treat intestinal infection caused by a bacterium called Clostridium difficile, a "poop transplant" that uses frozen poop may be as effective as one that uses fresh ...

Can you give us a brief introduction to your background and research interests? I joined Montana State University in 2012, and I am now Associate Professor and Head of the Walk Lab at the university.

People who have Clostridium difficile spores in their gastrointestinal tracts but who aren't sick may be spreading the infection in hospitals and long-term care facilities. C. difficile is a bacterium ...

Ferring Pharmaceuticals’ biotherapeutic passed an FDA committee vote despite some skepticism from a handful of members, setting up the asset for potential approval to treat Clostridioides difficile ...

Spores of Clostridioides difficile are unaffected by treatment with bleach in the high concentrations commonly used for cleaning in many hospitals, a study found. Researchers from the University of ...

A new study published today in the American Journal of Infection Control (AJIC) describes the outcome of a new approach to testing for Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) guided by the principles of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The Infectious Diseases Society of America and The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, or SHEA, have ...

A recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report found 75 percent of patients in a group of 10,342 cases were already colonized with C. difficile at the time of hospital admission, according ...

Samples from 12 countries suggest shoe soles have a high positivity rate for Clostridium difficile, a strain primarily thought of as a hospital-associated infection. New research presented at IDWeek ...