C. diff can live for months on surfaces. It's not well-known how long the incubation period for C. diff is. Studies have shown the infection can appear anywhere from 2 days to 3 months after you ...

Surprising findings from a new study suggest that the burden of C. diff infection may be less a ... University Medical Center over a nine-month period. Arianna Miles-Jay, a postdoctoral fellow ...

The people most vulnerable to C. diff infection are those in medical care who require antibiotics for an extended period. Older individuals may also be at increased risk. C. diff’s main symptom ...

Researchers identified 28,339 patients with celiac disease and 141,588 controls at pathology departments in Sweden over a 39-year period ... had a history of C. diff. The study shows that the ...

The researchers found that this strain of C. difficile, known as O27, establishes a persistent, prolonged contagious period ... this persistent form of C. diff with a range of antibiotics but ...