A new government report says the intestinal infections in hospitals more than doubled between 2000 and 2005, when 301,200 patients were diagnosed with C. diff-related disease.

C. diff is a type of bacteria that can cause diarrhea, abdominal pain, and tenderness. It is commonly treated with antibiotics such as fidaxomicin (Dificid) and vancomycin (Firvanq). C. diff ...

C. diff infects around 500,000 patients every year in the US, triggering symptoms including diarrhea, abdominal pain and fever. Of these, about 30,000 die from the infection.

Now, by tracking the bacterium through the hospital environment, rather than on patients alone, scientists have uncovered previously undetected movement of C. diff bacteria through hospital settings.

The bacterium lives in many people’s gut, but other healthy bacteria keep C. diff under control. When you take antibiotics, there can be an overgrowth of C. diff.

C. difficile (C. diff) is one of the most common and contagious hospital-acquired infections. Research has found that C. diff spreads more than three times more than previously thought. C. diff ...

C. difficile is an opportunistic pathogen that often wreaks intestinal havoc after a course of antibiotics clears out healthy gut bacteria (SN: 10/24/18).The bacterium infects around 500,000 ...

While many people carry C. diff in their guts without issue, the bacteria can sometimes grow out of control, triggering diarrhea and colitis (a common trigger for this is antibiotic use, since the ...

Clostridioides difficile (C. diff), a type of bacteria which often affects people who have taken antibiotics, is responsible for approximately 2,000 deaths annually in the UK.