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Vancomycin appeared to top placebo for lowering Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) recurrence rates in patients taking ...

Clinical cure and no disease recurrence within 60 days for 66.7 percent in FMT group, 61.2 percent in vancomycin group.

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C. difficile takes advantage of this situation and spreads rapidly in the colon, releasing toxins that cause watery and, eventually, bloody diarrhea, according to the Cleveland Clinic.

Currently, C. difficile is first treated with antibiotics like vancomycin, against which the bacteria has not developed a ...

About 500,000 C. difficile infections occur in the U.S. each year, and 15,000 people die from it, the Cleveland Clinic says.