This bacteria, also known as C. difficile or C. diff, causes half a million infections and kills roughly 30,000 people in the ...

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Typically, C. diff infections are treated for 10–14 days with an oral antibiotic. Once diarrhea resolves, it is usually safe ...

But it also exists as spores that live outside the body, which survive for long periods of time in soil or on surfaces, and serve as a major source of infections. In a study published earlier this ...

Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is considered to be the main cause of bacterial infectious diarrhea in nosocomial settings. Since the beginning of the new century a continuous rise in the ...

Pfizer's vaccine for Clostridium difficile (C. US biotech Vedanta Biosciences has been awarded up to $76.9 million to develop VE303 for high-risk Clostridioides difficile (C. diff.) infection by ...