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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

By having to clean every surface twice, this oversight becomes less likely. And the physical act of wiping—rather than merely spraying a cleaning product—is especially critical with C. diff.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...