C. diff infections can cause severe diarrhea and are extremely painful, as Ruth Zimmer, an 87-year-old woman from Lexington, Ky., can attest. "It was a lot of diarrhea," she says.

The bacterium C. difficile causes one of the most common infections in hospitals and nursing homes. After climbing for decades, the rate of new infections is now falling.

Introduction. C difficile infection (CDI) can cause severe illness and suffering, particularly for older people, those on antibiotics, and people with debilitating illnesses.. Antibiotics can disturb ...

C. diff is a very hearty, spore-forming bacteria transmitted via the fecal-oral route. Infections often originate when antibiotics are administered to patients, altering their normal gut bacteria ...

New research undertaken by the University of Utah Health has found that one of the most common health care-associated infections spreads in intensive care units more than three times more than ...

I got C. diff from antibiotics for a sinus infection, and I had diarrhea for 13 days. Ironically, the treatment was another antibiotic, vancomycin.

The bacterium C. difficile causes one of the most common infections in hospitals and nursing homes. After climbing for decades, the rate of new infections is now falling.

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 ...

C. diff infections can cause severe diarrhea and are extremely painful, as Ruth Zimmer, an 87-year-old woman from Lexington, Ky., can attest. "It was a lot of diarrhea," she says. "It was a ...

C. diff infections, which rose for decades, are now falling, according to the CDC. C. Diff Infections Are Falling, Thanks To Better Cleaning And Fewer Antibiotics By Angus Chen ...

The bacterium C. difficile causes one of the most common infections in hospitals and nursing homes. After climbing for decades, the rate of new infections is now falling.