A notorious hospital-associated infection has been spreading through hospitals much more readily than people suspected, a new study says. The bacterium Clostridium difficile – commonly called C. diff ...

A total of 7,000 samples were collected across 278 unique ICU admissions over the course of the study, with 177 patients ...

diet may help alleviate diarrhea (the primary symptom) that is associated with this bacterial infection. Clostridioides ...

in Clostridium difficile-associated disease (CDAD), one of the most common causes of diarrhea in hospitalized adults in North America. Data Sources: A literature search was performed using MEDLINE ...

Loo VG et al. A predominantly clonal multi-institutional outbreak of Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea with high morbidity and mortality. N Engl J Med 2005 Dec 8; 353:2442-9. Centers for ...