Plenty of different types of viruses and bacteria are resistant to alcohol-based sanitizers. And they can make you very sick.

“This increases patients’ risk of future antibiotic resistance and other infections such as C difficile [Clostridium difficile] colitis. Broad-spectrum antibiotics also increase the risk for ...

And who spends the most time closest to the ground? Children and pets. Kids crawl, play and often put their hands in their mouths. Pets lick their paws after walking on these contaminated surfaces.

Clostridium perfringens typically causes relatively mild, self-limiting, gastroenteritis. Recent data support a role for food in the epidemiology of Clostridiodes difficile infections. It is hoped ...

Here’s everything experts need you to know. Clostridium botulinum is a bacterium that produces botulinum toxin, the neurotoxin that causes botulism, says Dr. Daniel Kuritzkes, Chief of the ...

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has issued a call for data and experts relating to parasites in food. Approximately 30 percent of foodborne illnesses globally are caused by ...

During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, many people ramped up their use of hand sanitizer, with research finding that kids used ... according to the CDC. Clostridium difficile is a bacterium ...

During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, many people ramped up their use of hand sanitizer, with research finding that kids used ... according to the CDC. Clostridium difficile is a bacterium ...

C. diff, short for Clostridium difficile, is a form of infectious bacterium. It can cause a range of symptoms but most commonly results in colitis, which is the inflammation of the wall of your colon.

However, guidelines for C. difficile on the Infectious Diseases Society of America’s website still reference Clostridium rather than Clostridioides. IDSA told Infectious Disease News that the ...

Our friend here, Clostridium butyricum (also known as C butyricum), is one of the hardest working microbes living in our gut. Without its exhaustive work, we might find ourselves constantly ...