Patients suffering from a recurrent infection with the C difficile bacteria have benefited from a microbiome treatment from Rebiotix. The results from the open label phase 2 trial confirm that ...

C. diff causes nearly 30,000 deaths each year in the US, says Ferring, and recurrent infections with the bacterium make up 10%-15% of all hospital-treated infections.

By combining MERFISH imaging with expansion microscopy, researchers have unlocked a new way to study bacteria at the ...

Antibiotics are indispensable for treating bacterial infections. But why are they sometimes ineffective, even when the bacteria are not resistant? In their latest study, researchers challenge the ...

AbbVie said on Friday that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved its drug for complicated intra-abdominal infections ...

A new study published in Biochemistry sheds light on how bacteria regulate their genes, challenging long-held assumptions ...

Antibiotics are indispensable for treating bacterial infections. But why are they sometimes ineffective, even when the bacteria are not resistant? In their latest study published in the journal Nature ...

How do bacteria—harmless ones living in our bodies, or those that cause disease—organize their activities? A new study, ...

Mild Clostridium difficile infection (CDI; stool frequency <four-times daily; no signs of severe colitis), clearly induced by the use of antibiotics, may be treated by stopping the inducing ...

In a new case study, researchers from North Carolina State University found that a family suffering from illnesses that ...

35–49 years old 0.98 (0.74, 1.31) 0.84 (0.61, 1.14) 0.82 (0.49, 1.38) 1.49 (0.96, 2.33) 50–64 years old 1.27 (0.97, 1.65) 1.34 (1.00, 1.78) 0.84 (0.53, 1.33) 1.92 (1.19, 3.11) 65 years old or ...

Fried rice syndrome is a type of food poisoning often caused by eating reheated rice, which can lead to vomiting and diarrhea.