Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), comprising Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC), is a set of clinically chronic, relapsing gastrointestinal inflammatory disease and lacks of an absolute cure. Although the precise etiology is unknown, developments in high-throughput microbial genomic se …

Clostridioides difficile (C. difficile) is a gram-positive, spore-forming, anaerobic bacterium known to be the most common cause of hospital-acquired and antibiotic-associated diarrhea. C. difficile infection rates are on the rise worldwide and treatment options are limited, indicating a clear need …

Pediatric Reactive Arthritis Due to Clostridioides difficile Infection

WGS identified a highly diverse group of C. difficile isolates among POTP with CDI. Although WGS identified clusters of closely related isolates in multiple patients, epidemiologic investigation of shared inpatient exposures identified potential transmission in only two clusters. C. difficile transm …

Children with IBD have a markedly higher incidence of CDI identified during a hospitalization relative to children without IBD. Consequently, symptomatic children with IBD who are hospitalized should be screened for CDI.An infographic is available for this article at: http://links.lww.com/MPG/C842.

Defining the complex role of the microbiome in colorectal cancer (CRC) and the discovery of novel, pro-tumorigenic microbes are areas of active investigation. In the present study, culturing and reassociation experiments revealed that toxigenic strains of Clostridioides difficile drove the tumorigen …

Communications Biology - Analysis of fecal samples from patients and mice, shows that chronic multisymptom illness which affects a subsection of elderly and war Veterans, is associated with...

Read updates on effective treatments for IBS, the effects of food allergies on proton pump inhibitor efficacy, and oral microbiome therapy for C difficile and more from DDW 2022.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 01, 2022--Seres Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: MCRB), a leading microbiome therapeutics company, announced the presentation of preclinical data supporting further investigation of a rationally designed microbial consortium candidate (DE486) to prevent or treat gastrointestinal (GI) mucositis – a common and often painful complication of radiation and chemotherapy involving the breakdown of the rapidly-dividing epithelial cells lining the GI tract. These results are available o

Clostridioides difficile colitis is an inflammation of the colon due to toxins produced by a gram-positive bacterium called Clostridioides difficile (also known as Clostridium difficile). Clostr...

Toxic megacolon is a serious medical condition that may require urgent care. Read on for more on the causes and treatment options.

Excellent thread @AvrahamCooperMD! We recently performed a large scale meta-analysis (42k+ metagenomic samples) looking the gut #microbiome associated with #Cdiff, especially in healthy infants! You can check out the preprint: https://t.co/DGoRN6QJJv https://t.co/o6JK7BzzWh— Pamela Ferretti (@pam_ferretti) May 30, 2022

Despite the benefits of red blood cell (RBC) transfusion therapy, it can render patients vulnerable to iron overload. The excess iron deposits in various body tissues cause severe complications and organ damage such as cardiotoxicity and mold infections. Clostridioides difficile infection (CD …

Infection with Clostridioides difficile (CDI), a common healthcare-associated infection, includes symptoms ranging from mild diarrhea to severe cases of pseudomembranous colitis. Toxin A (TcdA) and toxin B (TcdB) cause cytotoxicity and cellular detachment from intestinal epithelium and are re …

Ultrasensitive, quantitative Clostridioides difficile stool toxin measurement demonstrated significantly higher concentrations of toxins A and B in patients infected with the NAP-1/027 strain compared to patients infected with other strains. These data provide in vivo confirmation of the in vitro as …

Scientific Reports - Effects of broad-spectrum antibiotics on the colonisation of probiotic yeast Saccharomyces boulardii in the murine gastrointestinal tract

Patients with PPP have significantly higher risk for ankylosing spondylitis, Graves disease than those with psoriasis vulgaris

Clostridioides difficile is an anaerobic, Gram-positive pathogen that is responsible for C. difficile infection (CDI). To survive in the environment and spread to new hosts, C. difficile must form metabolically dormant spores. The formation of spores requires activation of the transcription factor S …

Our study reiterates that despite prophylaxis, infectious complications in GVHD following LT are common and lead to exceptionally high mortality. Individualized antimicrobial treatment, prophylaxis and monitoring strategies remain a critical component of GVHD management. Further study to optimize th …

Clostridium difficile is often the primary cause of nosocomial diarrhea, leading to thousands of deaths annually worldwide. The availability of an efficient genome editing tool for C. difficile is essential to understanding its pathogenic mechanism and physiological behavior. Here, we describe a str …

Clostridioides difficile: New global perspectives

Nature - A fez gene cluster drives formation of ferrosomes, a distinct lipid-bounded organelle for iron storage, in diverse bacterial species.

Researchers have used a systems biology approach to parse the genetic diversity of Clostridioides difficile, a particularly problematic pathogen, particularly in health care settings.

Notes from the Field: Escherichia coli O157:H7 Outbreak in Children with Clostridioides difficile Colonization Associated with an Improperly Treated Swimming Pool - Pennsylvania, June 2021

At the 10th GMFH World Summit, a panel of experts came together to share the latest in gut microbiota research.

Can Clostridium innocuum masquerade as Clostridioides difficile?

The WalR-WalK two-component regulatory system (TCS) is found in all Firmicutes, in which it regulates the expression of multiple genes required for remodeling the cell envelope during growth and division. Unlike most TCSs, WalRK is essential for viability, so it has attracted interest as a po …

The glycyl radical enzyme (GRE) family utilizes a glycyl radical cofactor, installed by AdoMet radical activating enzymes, to catalyze difficult chemical reactions in a variety of microbial metabolic pathways. Although GREs are widely encoded and expressed by bacteria found in the gut microbiome, th …