Infection News

Fecal microbiota transplantation for recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection in patients with inflammatory bowel disease was safe and well tolerated and resulted in a high rate of C. difficile decolonization, according to a study published in Gastroenterology.

An outbreak of Salmonella Newport is “rapidly growing in size” across the United States, according to the CDC. The agency said it has not identified a source of the infections.

Both patients and gastroenterologists have been highly satisfied with telehealth services during the COVID-19 pandemic, according results from a survey published in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology.

Patients with cirrhosis and COVID-19 had higher mortality rates than patients with COVID-19 alone, but similar rates as patients with just cirrhosis, according to research published in Gut.

Analysis of Google search trends correlated with increases in COVID-19 cases several weeks before any actual spike, according to study results.

Fecal microbiota transplantation was safe and effective for the treatment of Clostridioides difficile infection in patients with cirrhosis, according to study results.

Finch Therapeutics announced positive topline results from a randomized controlled trial of CP101 for the prevention of recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection, according to a press release.

Typhoid fever and paratyphoid fever are clinically indistinguishable and produce the syndrome known as enteric fever. Both are caused by Salmonella that infect only humans. Therefore, when the diagnosis of typhoid or paratyphoid fever is made, the origin is another human.

In newly issued guidelines, the American Gastroenterological Association did not recommend using probiotics for most digestive conditions.

Patients with Clostridioides difficile infection who also have cancer spent more than 20 days longer in the hospital on average than those without Clostridioides difficile infection, according to a retrospective analysis in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. This resulted in an average of nearly $60,000 more in the cost of care.