The pathogen Clostridioides difficile (C. diff)—a leading cause of hospital-acquired infections—must contend with a variety ...

Keith Kaye, MD, MPH, explains how shorter antibiotic courses and optimized dosing help balance treatment efficacy against C.

RATES of a potentially fatal stomach bug have surged by more than a third in hospitals in England since 2020, shock figures suggest. Clostridioides difficile – known as C. diff – is the leading ...

Clostridiumdifficile infection spreads easily and is a frequent cause of death among hospitalized older adults.

Keith Kaye, MD, MPH, breaks down the institutional gaps, from antibiotic overuse to hand hygiene fatigue, that let ...

Since its discovery, the highly contagious bacterium Clostridioides difficile (C. difficile or C. diff) has been reported not to cause symptoms in infants, leading to the assumption that colonization ...

The pathogen Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) - a leading cause of hospital-acquired infections - must contend with a ...

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 ...

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 competitive ...

Susan Gottlieb recalls being wracked with unspeakable pain. Donna Gerek talks about the loneliness of a hospital isolation unit. And David Gould says he was considered a Typhoid Mary when fellow ...

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 ...