According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) accounts for 15% to 25% of all cases of antibiotic-associated diarrhea. The bacterium lives in ...

Consumer Reports released new ratings on U.S. hospitals' efforts to prevent Clostridium difficile. It found that around one-third of the more than 3,100 hospitals evaluated received a low rating ...

According to a recent CDC report, C. diff caused nearly half a million infections in U.S. hospitalized patients in 2011. ... 2 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. March 6, 2012.

In 2011, the CDC estimated C. diff claimed the lives of about 29,000 people and caused nearly 500,000 illnesses in the U.S., over three times the number in 2000.

In 2011, the CDC estimated C. diff claimed the lives of about 29,000 people and caused nearly 500,000 illnesses in the U.S., over three times the number in 2000.

Songer’s study follows a 2007 report in the CDC journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, which showed Canadian researchers detected C. diff in 12 — or 20 percent — of 60 retail meat samples ...

Medically reviewed by Lindsey Waldman, MD, RD A C. diff (Clostridioides difficile ) diet may help alleviate diarrhea (the ...

CDC credits a sharp decline in C. diff infections to checklists and better ... The new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed a roughly 24% reduction in infections ...

Many people who have C. diff have recurrent infections, and the symptoms of a recurrence are broadly similar to those of the original infection. Learn more.

C. diff is a horrible disease that can cause significant morbidity. It can and often does recur and kills around 30,000 Americans every year. We have made progress in prevention and treatment, but ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported that approximately 500,000 people were infected with C. difficile in 2011, according to a report by U.S. World & News Report. Of those ...

Consumer Reports also released C. diff infection control ratings in March. Large teaching hospitals (those with more than 500 beds) in particular seem to have a problem controlling C. diff rates.