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 ...

Some infants carry the diarrhea-causing bacteria Clostridium difficile in their guts without any symptoms, but the bacteria may rapidly disappear when these infants switch from drinking breast milk to ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a 76-year-old male who is in relatively good health. For the past six months, I have been experiencing ...

The bacterium Clostridioides difficile is named “difficult” for a reason. Originally, it was hard to grow in the lab, and, now, it’s the source of gut infections that are tough to treat. About half a ...

In theory, clostridium difficile (aka C. diff) does not seem like a tough problem to solve. Yes, it’s a deadly bacterial infection that sickens almost a half-million people and contributes to some ...

Five insights from the report, written by Clayton Dalton, MD, a resident physician at Boston-based Massachusetts General Hospital: 1. In addition to antibiotic use being a risk factor for C. diff, ...

Hospitals and nursing homes have long battled the bacterium Clostridium difficile, which can dangerously inflame the colon and cause diarrhea. In 2011 alone, nearly half a million Americans suffered ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON – March is the month when hospitals see more Clostridium difficile infections, and the Northeast is the region that leads the nation in the difficult to treat infection, researchers ...

Clostridium difficile caused nearly half a million infections in U.S. patients in 2011, and C. diff infections kill roughly 15,000 Americans each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and ...

The pathogen C. diff -- the most common cause of health care-associated infectious diarrhea -- can use a compound that kills the human gut's resident microbes to survive and grow, giving it a ...