A newly developed synthetic "poop" can cure nasty gastrointestinal infections caused by Clostridium difficile, a toxin-producing bacterium, a new study suggests. A synthetic "poop" developed at the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with Clostridium difficile infection who received a single fecal microbiota transplantation using stool ...

A synthetic mixture of intestinal bacteria could one day replace stool transplants as a treatment for Clostridium difficile (C. difficile). C . difficile is a toxin-producing bacteria that can ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a warning Thursday following the death of a patient who received a fecal transplant containing drug-resistant bacteria. Fecal transplants are used to treat ...

The nonprofit public stool bank, OpenBiome, has announced a new pilot program called PersonalBiome, which will allow individuals to bank a cryogenically preserved sample of their own healthy ...

Empirical intravenous vancomycin, piperacillin–tazobactam, and metronidazole were administered owing to concern about polymicrobial sepsis. Over the next hour, the patient became increasingly ...

Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) announced today that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has provided 510(k) clearance for the cobas® Cdiff Test to detect Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) ...

A 70-year-old woman with a history of Clostridium difficile infection returned to the clinic with abdominal pain and diarrhea. Three stool samples were negative for C. difficile and WBCs. Would you ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Background. Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea (CDAD) is the major cause of health care-associated infectious diarrhea. Current ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification of a segment of the toxin A gene was used to detect toxigenic Clostridium difficile directly ...

Fake poop: It’s not just something that elementary school kids love to play with. It can also keep people healthy. Emma Allen-Vercoe, a microbiologist at the University of Guelph in Ontario, revealed ...

A synthetic mixture of intestinal bacteria could one day replace stool transplants as a treatment for Clostridium difficile (C. difficile). C. difficile is a toxin-producing bacteria that can ...