Experts are warning about soaring new cases of a deadly bacteria which leaves patients scared with the ‘worst diarrhoea ever’ ...

Shared insight on the process to gain access to fecal microbiota transplant for patients with clostridium difficile infection.

Half a million people this year will get an infection called C. diff. It ranges from uncomfortable to life-threatening. And in more and more cases, doctors are turning to an unusual but highly ...

Researchers polled 119 patients who had suffered recurrent C. diff infections and were treated at Chicago-area hospitals. They defined recurrent infections as a second episode of C. diff within 15 ...

Ruling out a case of C. diff required isolation. Positive results required isolation and negative results were true negatives which would release the patient from isolation.

Ultraviolet C light disinfection on unoccupied patient rooms in hospitals significantly reduces C. difficile infections, researchers say in a new study.

But C. diff diarrhea is a particular concern in hospitals because of its potential to spread from patient to patient.

"Any time we can reduce C. diff in the healthcare field, you're not only helping the patient in front of you, but also every patient on that ward, potentially," Mergenhagen emphasized. CDI affects ...

Clostridioides difficile/Clostridium difficile (C. diff) is a bacterial infection and is the most common cause of healthcare-associated diarrhea. C. diff has two distinct presentations, primary ...

The bacterium Clostridium difficile — otherwise known as C. diff — spreads within intensive care units more than three times as much as previously thought, according to a study published on ...

A new study on Clostridioides difficile infections finds that choosing an alternative antibiotic for high-risk patients with pneumonia can reduce infection risk.