Melissa A. Farrow, Nicole M. Chumbler, Lynne A. Lapierre, Jeffrey L. Franklin, Stacey A. Rutherford, James R. Goldenring, D. Borden Lacy Proceedings of the National ...

Clinical findings shed more light on toxins produced by C. diff A team from Nashville, Tenn.-based VanderbiltUniversityMedicalCenter has teased out new secrets from Clostridium difficile, the ...

A new study, led by researchers from the University of California, Irvine (UCI), uncovers the long-sought-after, three-dimensional structure of a toxin primarily responsible for devastating ...

The presence of antigen-specific and neutralizing antibodies was not associated with Clostridioides difficile infection symptoms, severity, therapy approach, treatment response, or recurrences in a ...

Cdiffense trial to evaluate vaccine against a leading cause of life-threatening, healthcare-associated infections worldwide SWIFTWATER, Pa., Aug. 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines ...

American researchers have discovered the process by which the cells in the gut fight off toxins produced by a hospital bug - Clostridium difficile. Writing in Nature Medicine, they showed how a ...

The study of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) continues to reveal intricate details of its pathogenesis, epidemiology and potential novel therapies. Research has elucidated how the bacterium, ...

A trio of researchers has identified the location of the genes that control production of toxins that harm people infected by Clostridium difficile bacteria. The gene locus, agr1, forms part of a ...

Therefore, a two-step diagnostic algorithm with a rapid highly sensitive screening method to identify positive samples, to be confirmed by gold standard, should be strongly recommended. Some ...

- The vaccine candidate was highly immunogenic in elderly subjects and was able to induce similar immune responses to Clostridium difficile toxins A and B as the ones observed in adults in part Ia of ...

In a hamster model of Clostridium difficile, infection with C. difficile strains producing either toxin A or toxin B caused fulminant disease, according to a research team from the University of ...