C. diff. In the News - New Antibiotic Could Treat C. diff. In Time

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New antibiotic could transform C. diff treatment

Clinical trials have begun of a treatment that could fight outbreaks of the bacterial infection Clostridium difficile.

Scientists at Strathclyde University (Scotland), who developed the antibiotic, say it is the first of a new class of drug that could transform the treatment of potentially fatal diseases.