Patients admitted to the hospital between 2010-13 were included in the analysis if they were younger than 65, had a C. diff infection diagnosis in 2011, had at least 12 months of continuous ...

The C. diff infection was detected in 2.6 percent of patients not exposed to carriers and in 4.6 percent of patients exposed to carriers who showed no symptoms.

The brochure includes information on patient and family education. Designed in 2008, it addresses several questions including the following: What is Clostridium Difficile infection? What are the ...

If it takes up residence in the large intestine, C. diff can cause a range of gastrointestinal symptoms. The most common are colitis, which is widespread inflammation of the colon, and persistent ...

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.

Dear Reader: For those who are not familiar, C. diff is short for Clostridioides difficile, a potentially life-threatening bacterium. If it takes up residence in the large intestine, C. diff can cause ...

However, an appeals court has revived it, agreeing that the North Andover facility’s inability to pinpoint resident Edward Cahill’s outward infection symptoms may have led to his 2013 death ...

If it takes up residence in the large intestine, C. diff can cause a range of gastrointestinal symptoms. The most common are colitis, which is widespread inflammation of the colon, and persistent ...

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. This disruption allows an overgrowth ...