In addition, a fecal transplant is most commonly performed on patients suffering from Clostridioides difficile (or C.diff), a bacterium that causes colon infections. DeDecker added, "There are ...

The pathogen C. diff - the most common cause of health care-associated infectious diarrhea - can use a compound that kills ...

diff "fitness" in mice fed 4-thiouracil and in a novel MiniBioreactor model that contains a community of bacteria isolated from human feces with added 4-thiouracil. "We think that 4-thiouracil ...

A group of gut bacteria successfully hindered recurrent Clostridium difficile infection in mice, offering alternative therapeutic strategies to antibiotics and fecal transplant. To investigate whether ...

Studies point to the life-saving record of fecal transplants for patients infected with C. diff, despite a recent death. Doctors are now testing the procedure for other conditions. In 2008, ...

A Novel First-in-Class Microbiome-Restoration Therapy for the Prevention of Recurrence of C. diff Infection Ferring's novel first-in-class REBYOTA is indicated for the prevention of recurrence of ...