Harvard researchers make the case for people storing their poop when young, in order to restore their gut microbiomes later in life. Reading time 3 minutes Experts at Harvard and elsewhere are ...

An oral, investigational live biotherapeutic product containing eight strains of commensal Clostridia prevented recurrent Clostridioides difficile infections in a randomized, double-blind phase II ...

A study published in mBio, the online open-access journal of the American Society for Microbiology, may help create a test to predict which hospital patients are at the highest risk of developing a ...

C. diff, which is short for Clostridioides difficile, is a type of bacteria that may cause serious problems in the digestive system. It is one of the most common causes of diarrhea linked to ...

Costly treatments from Merck & Co and other drugmakers, and a vaccine from Sanofi, are on the horizon. But growing numbers of gastroenterologists are more excited about the use of human stool ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I had two previous episodes of C. diff and was treated with vancomycin. My stool tests the first time were negative. Recently, I got the same symptoms, and the doctor did a stool test ...

Clostridiumdifficile infection (also known as C. diff or CDI) is one of the most common hospital-acquired infections and is a frequent cause of death among hospitalized older adults. Keystone ...