Antibiotic resistance is supercharging dangerous gut bacteria to withstand even hospital-grade disinfectants intended to kill ...

After a bout of food poisoning or gastroenteritis, the diarrhea you expected to clear up in a few days just won't go away. Or ...

For as long as she can remember, Minnie Hatch has experienced tons of infections, including those of the urinary tract, sinuses, skin, and ears. Doctors frequently treated her with antibiotics. When ...

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Typical presentations include chronic watery diarrhea, increased stool frequency, fecal urgency, and bloating. Although patients with bile acid diarrhea generally do not describe prominent abdominal ...

Paul Feuerstadt, MD, FACG, AGAF, discusses how testing for Clostridioides difficile is recommended for hospitalized patients or outpatients with new-onset, unexplained diarrhea who have risk factors ...

Clostridioides difficile is best known as a gut pathogen causing severe diarrhoea and colitis. But in this case, it turned up deep inside a patient’s tibia. Writing in BMJ Case Reports, US clinicians ...

After biting into a chicken bone hidden inside a burrito, a routine dental infection led to antibiotic treatment that disrupted her gut microbiome. What followed was recurrent Clostridioides difficile ...

Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) is a bacterium that can cause a serious infection that disrupts your social life, often leading to isolation due to symptoms, hospitalization, and fear of spreading ...

Antibiotics were routinely prescribed in almost 97% of outpatient visits for uncomplicated diverticulitis — more than 10 years after the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) guideline called ...