When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Jennifer Oosthuizen/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY via Getty Images The superbug Clostridioides ...

Known as one of the superbugs that resists most antibiotics, Clostridioides difficile, or C. diff, causes inflammation of the colon and can lead to diarrhea and sometimes death. The stubborn bacteria ...

Scientists have discovered how the hospital superbug C.diff rapidly evolves resistance to the frontline drug used for treatment in the UK. Scientists have discovered how the hospital superbug C.diff ...

PnimB G-associated metronidazole (MTZ) resistance co-occurs with fluroquinolone resistance and pandemic spread. Credit: Nature Communications (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-39429-x Researchers at the ...

Clostridium difficile bacteria, computer illustration. C. difficile is a normal inhabitant of the human intestine, but it can become a pathogen when antibiotics disrupt the normal intestinal flora and ...

Scientists have identified a structural reason why Clostridium difficile may be so difficult to eradicate, according to findings published Feb. 25 in Nature Communications. Scientists from several U.K ...

A fecal microbiota transplant (FMT) not only cured a case of Clostridium difficile (C. diff) infection in a 66 year old man; it eliminated populations of multi-drug resistant organisms both in the ...

The antibiotic vancomycin, recommended as first-line treatment for infection caused by the deadly superbug C. difficile (C. diff), may not be living up to its promise, according to new research. The ...

The retrospective study analyzed the implementation of ultraviolet environmental disinfection following discharge cleaning at the 643-bed Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla, N.Y. UV disinfection ...

Understanding why some strains are resistant to the antibiotic metronidazole will allow clinicians to test before treating the infection with ineffective drugs Researchers at Texas A&M University ...

Researchers at the University of Sheffield have discovered how a hospital superbug Clostridioides difficile (C.diff) can rapidly evolve resistance to vancomycin, the frontline drug used in the UK ...

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