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Researchers discover compounds that reduce side effects of antibiotics on
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
The use of antibiotics can be beneficial in treating bacterial infections, but they can also destroy the beneficial microorganisms that are found in the gut, which can have long-term health effects.
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Researchers find new strategies to treat Clostridioides difficile infectio
Updated : 3 years ago IST
Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), two of the founding institutions of Mass General Brigham, have discovered the metabolic mechanisms Clostridioides difficile uses to quickly invade the gut.
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Scientists engineer probiotic to prevent infection of large intestine
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Scientists from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine) have created a probiotic to restore bile salt metabolism, found in the gastrointestinal tract, to counter the onset and effects of Clostridium Difficile Infection (CDI).
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Study: Antibiotic-resistant microbes in the gut make C. difficile more inf
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Clostridioides difficile, often referred to as C. difficile or C. diff, is a bacterium that causes severe intestinal illness and, as its name suggests, can be difficult to study and treat. Approximately 1 in 6 patients infected with C. difficile will be reinfected within two months. Yet scie
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NUS scientists develop probiotic to prevent large intestine infections
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Singapore, August 4 (ANI): Scientists at the National University of Singapore's (NUS Medicine) Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine developed a probiotic to restore bile salt metabolism in the gastrointestinal tract in order to combat the onset and consequences of Clostridium Difficile infection
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Study reveals individualised mosaics of microbial strains transfer from ma
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Birmingham [UK], May 10 (ANI): Microbial communities in the intestine -- also known as the gut microbiome -- are vital for human digestion, metabolism and resistance to colonisation by pathogens. The gut microbiome composition in infants and toddlers changes extensively in the first three ye
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Study focuses on key structure of C. difficle bacteria that could lead to
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 5 (ANI): Researchers have identified the structure of the most lethal toxin produced by certain strains of Clostridium difficile bacteria, a potentially deadly infection associated with the use of antibiotics.
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Beware! Those heartburn drugs up risk of diarrhea, inflammation of colon
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington.D.C. [USA], Mar. 29 (ANI): A study finds that gastric acid suppression drugs increase the risk of recurrent Clostridium difficile infection - which causes diarrhea and life-threatening inflammation of the colon.
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