C. diff causes about half a million infections in the U.S. each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Factors that increase risk of C. diff infection include ...

Minnie Hatch, 29, from Salt Lake City, had painful stomach cramps, and other symptoms for months before finding out she had Clostridioides difficile, or C. diff. These bacteria can grow out of control ...

Recurrent C. diff infection is when you contract a C. diff infection 2 to 8 weeks after completing treatment for a previous one. C. diff relapse is a recurrence of the same strain, ...

Dear Doctors: I was sick for months with debilitating pain, extreme weight loss, fatigue and loss of appetite. I was diagnosed with C. diff related to an abdominal surgery. I’m being treated with ...

Q. Many years ago, I developed a terrible Clostridium difficile infection in my gut from antibiotic treatment for chlamydia. Vancomycin did not cure the C. diff, which was painful.

C. diff infection is often associated with the use of broad-spectrum antibiotics, which disturb the equilibrium of the microbial colonies living in the colon.

Clostridioides difficile, or C. diff, is a common and serious healthcare-associated infection that leads to diarrhea and other intestinal complications.

More than 450,000 C. diff infections are reported in the United States each year, leading to as many as 30,000 deaths, according to public health estimates.

Newly discovered iron storage 'ferrosomes' inside the bacterium C. diff -- the leading cause of hospital-acquired infections -- are important for infection in an animal model and could offer new ...

Dear Doctors: I was sick for months with debilitating pain, extreme weight loss, fatigue and loss of appetite. I was diagnosed with C. diff related to an abdominal surgery. I’m ...

The researchers found that C. diff must acquire a certain type of nucleotides (pyrimidines) to cause infection, and they discovered an enzyme they named TudS (thiouracil desulfurase) that C. diff ...

Q: I was sick for months with debilitating pain, extreme weight loss, fatigue and loss of appetite. I was diagnosed with C. diff related to an abdominal surgery. I’m being treated with antibi… ...