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Data collected by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and the Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy suggest that Clostridioides difficile, or C. diff, a bacterial species well known for causing serious diarrheal infections, may also drive colorectal cancer.

Antibiotics inappropriately prescribed to nonhospitalized children resulted in at least $74 million in excess health-care costs in the U.S. in 2017, according to a new study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and The Pew Charitable Trusts.

Patients prescribed antibiotics in hospital are more likely to get fungal infections because of disruption to the immune system in the gut, according to a new study from the University of Birmingham and National Institutes of Health.

Ferring to Present Analyses for Investigational Microbiota-Based Live Biotherapeutic RBX2660 in Patients with Recurrent C. Difficile Infection at DDW 2022.

COVID-19 was the biggest data story of the past several decades, and the UCSF data...

The spectacular structure of the protective armor of superbug C.difficile has been revealed for the first time showing the close-knit yet flexible outer layer – like chain mail.

The outer coat of the antibiotic-resistant bacterium Clostridium difficile has a structure similar to chain mail that stops drugs and immune system cells from killing it

Taking your shoes off at the front door is not just a courtesy thing or protecting your floors from getting dirty.

Taking your shoes off at the front door is not just a courtesy thing or protecting your floors from getting dirty.

Taking your shoes off at the front door is not just a courtesy thing or protecting your floors from getting dirty.