Antibiotic and antifungal drug resistance pose a major public health threat. Live Science is covering the spread of this ...

Now, a new study reveals that this dangerous bacterium can evolve antibiotic resistance quickly, although this resistance comes with tradeoffs for the superbug.. The findings underscore the need ...

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 ...

Xeno Biosciences may have been unable to prove that its drug delivering oxygen to the gastrointestinal tract can induce ...

However, if these people fall ill and are prescribed broad spectrum antibiotics C-diff can become a problem – that’s because the antibiotics wipe out the normal gut bacteria, allowing the ...

Scientists have discovered how the hospital superbug C.diff rapidly evolves resistance to the frontline drug used for treatment in the UK. Clostridioides difficile (C. diff), a type of bacteria which ...

The product is based on purified Firmicutes bacterial spores delivered in an oral capsule that is designed to encourage the regrowth of healthy bacteria after antibiotic treatment for C.