Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have developed a new manufacturing platform for producing targeted ...

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 ...

Citing potential disclosure requirements from the Food and Drug Administration, lack of insurance coverage and lack of support among clinicians, the founders of stool-donation initiative, OpenBiome, ...

Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT), shown to be effective in the treatment of recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI), also shows significant benefit in the treatment of primary CDI, ...

Patients with Clostridioides difficile infection had different bacterial and fungal composition in their stool compared with that of uninfected patients, researchers found. Distinct species of fungus ...

Empirical intravenous vancomycin, piperacillin–tazobactam, and metronidazole were administered owing to concern about polymicrobial sepsis. Over the next hour, the patient became increasingly ...

FMT restores gut microbiota balance by transferring stool from healthy donors, mainly for recurrent C. difficile infections. Recent data shows FMT's high efficacy in preventing recurrent C. difficile, ...

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 ...