The risk of getting a deadly, treatment-resistant infection in a hospital or nursing home is dropping for the first time in decades, thanks to new guidelines on antibiotic use and stricter cleaning ...

Affecting roughly half a million Americans each year, bacterial infections caused by Clostridioides difficile—commonly known ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- We trust hospitals to help make us well. What we don't expect is to get sick in a hospital. But every year, about 648,000 hospital patients develop infections during their stay, and ...

Researchers may not yet understand the mechanism behind recurrent Clostridium difficile infections, but they may have isolated five risk factors, according to a study published in Infection Control & ...

The investigators analyzed data from all adult ICU patients at three affiliated hospitals between 2010 and 2013. They excluded patients who had recent C. diff infections, and focused on patients with ...

Dear Doctors: I was sick for months with debilitating pain, extreme weight loss, fatigue and loss of appetite. I was diagnosed with C. diff related to an abdominal surgery. I’m being treated with ...

Nearly half a million people in the United States suffer from an intestinal infection called Clostridium difficile each year. Approximately half of those individuals become sick enough to require ...

Newly discovered iron storage 'ferrosomes' inside the bacterium C. diff -- the leading cause of hospital-acquired infections -- are important for infection in an animal model and could offer new ...

Fever, nausea, cramping, and diarrhea — if you have ulcerative colitis (UC), you probably know that those symptoms signal a flare. The same symptoms can also be a Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) ...

Q: I was sick for months with debilitating pain, extreme weight loss, fatigue and loss of appetite. I was diagnosed with C. diff related to an abdominal surgery. I’m being treated with antibiotics, ...

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

Clostridium difficile bacteria, computer illustration. C. difficile is a normal inhabitant of the human intestine, but it can become a pathogen when antibiotics disrupt the normal intestinal flora and ...