Over the past year, the British National Health Service has pulled off a feat that, so far, has eluded U.S. healthcare officials: cutting the number of Clostridium difficile cases detected in its ...

The CDC recently released a study in JAMA that points to healthcare settings as the main site of C. diff acquisition for healthy people, with 82% of C diff. cases acquired in healthcare facilities. C.

Tests for the Clostridium difficile infection are missing up to 20% of cases and falsely diagnosing thousands of others, researchers have said. A study by St George's, University of London, and St ...

After the first year of interventions at Emory Saint Joseph's Hospital, there was a 63% decrease in hospital-onset C. diff cases as compared to the two years prior. Through a series of interventions ...

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 diarrhea on and off. I initially spoke to my general physician, and he ...

High and low dosages of a popular antibiotic offer little difference in the outcomes of Clostridium difficile infections, according to a new study. People treated with either low or high dosages of ...

Experts are warning about soaring new cases of a deadly bacteria which leaves patients scared with the ‘worst diarrhoea ever’. Clostridioides difficile, or C. diff, infections killed more than one in ...