EAST SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — The Upstate Institute for Global Health is looking for over 1000 Central New Yorkers to ...
Syracuse, NY — Upstate Medical University is looking for 1,000 volunteers — its largest clinical trial to date — to test a ...
Some people will get repeat infections from Clostridium difficile (C. diff). They may develop the same symptoms they had before such as diarrhea, stomach pain, and loss of appetite. However, the only ...
Researchers from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville have discovered a type of gut bacteria that could prove effective where other types of helpful bacteria have failed in the fight against ...
Scientists in Pennsylvania have developed an experimental mRNA-based vaccine for C. diff bacteria, which often cause recurring, miserable bouts of diarrhea. Reading time 3 minutes We might soon have a ...
The pathogen C. diff -- the most common cause of health care-associated infectious diarrhea -- can use a compound that kills the human gut's resident microbes to survive and grow, giving it a ...
Clostridioides difficile/Clostridium difficile (C. diff) is a bacterial infection and is the most common cause of healthcare-associated diarrhea. C. diff has two distinct presentations, primary and ...
Iron storage “spheres” inside the bacterium C. diff — the leading cause of hospital-acquired infections — could offer new targets for antibacterial drugs to combat the pathogen. A team of Vanderbilt ...
The medicine offers a new, potentially life-saving option for a difficult-to-treat condition. “This is such a groundbreaking advancement in the field of medicine,” Sahil Khanna, MBBS, a ...
The case could represent the first known instance of cat-to-human transmission of recurrent C. diff, though more research is needed to confirm this risk. Reading time 3 minutes A woman’s newly adopted ...
Vowst is a prescription drug that’s used in adults to help prevent Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) infection from coming back after it has been treated. Vowst comes as an oral capsule. Vowst ...