The mandatory requirement that Ontario hospitals report their C. difficile rates seems to have been followed by fewer such infections, a new study suggests. In Tuesday's issue of PLoS Medicine, ...

Elaris FlexCo ("Elaris"), an Austrian biotechnology company developing vaccines against serious bacterial infections, today announced that it has entered into an asset purchase agreement with Matrivax ...

The C. difficile outbreak at a Quebec hospital in St-Hyacinthe has killed another person, bringing the death toll to 10 since the bacteria emerged at the health centre in July. A total of 25 people ...

Vowst restores gut microbiome balance using live biotherapeutic products, differing from traditional antibiotic treatments for C. difficile infections. Clinical trials showed Vowst significantly ...

A large team of microbiologists, pathologists and infectious diseases specialists affiliated with several institutions in the U.S. has developed an mRNA vaccine that has thus far been found able to ...

Mass General Brigham researchers at two hospitals found the metabolic strategies C. difficile uses to rapidly colonize the gut and identified ways to combat the disease, the Somerville, Mass.-based ...

Clostridioides difficile is a notoriously nasty intestinal bug, with few effective treatments and no approved vaccines. But the same technology that enabled the first COVID-19 vaccines has shown early ...

An experimental antibiotic called EVG7 has shown promise against gram-positive bacterium Clostridioides difficile, the leading cause of healthcare and antibiotic-associated diarrhea in the US and ...

The Leapfrog Group’s Spring 2026 Hospital Safety Grades highlight significant reductions in key healthcare-associated infections and improvements in patient experience across U.S. hospitals. Central ...

This study explores the effectiveness of toxin testing in predicting Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) outcomes, revealing that patients with negative toxin results were less likely to ...

Spores of Clostridioides difficile are unaffected by treatment with bleach in the high concentrations commonly used for cleaning in many hospitals, a study found. Researchers from the University of ...