Clostridiumdifficile infection spreads easily and is a frequent cause of death among hospitalized older adults.

Significant challenges stand in the way of the use of fecal microbiota transplantation for C difficile infection in the US, ...

A trained dog can detect Clostridium difficile in stool samples and in hospital patients, according to a study in the British Medical Journal. Researchers studied a two-year-old beagle trained to ...

C. diff colitis is inflammation of a person’s colon due to contagious bacteria. Most people with C. diff colitis fully recover, but in rare cases the condition can be life threatening. It is possible ...

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Fecal microbiota transplantation with donor stool, administered via a colonoscopy, is more effective than the patient's own stool in preventing recurrent Clostridium difficile infection episodes, ...

In September, researchers opened OpenBiome in Cambridge, Mass., a nonprofit stool bank that prepares feces samples for use in fecal microbiota transplantation, according to a boston.com report. The ...

Neil Minkoff, MD: Let me ask the payers who are here, Dr Abdallah and Dr Stephens, to weigh in on how they cover FMT [fecal microbiota transplantation] and any of the barriers that are in the way for ...

In developing a treatment for Clostridium difficile—an infection that can cause life-threatening diarrhea—Ferring Pharmaceuticals has had to dig deep in a decadelong pursuit, experimenting with ...

Two TikTokers have gone viral for warning against the bacteria C. diff, which one says is having an uptick in cases. Mars, 20, (@m4r5hi) has personal experience with C. diff. In their video, they say ...