A recurrence of C. diff is common after an initial episode, with about 20% of people having a recurrence. A recurrence is ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Getty Images When I took antibiotics for a sinus infection, I began feeling weak and feverish, with diarrhea. I went to the ER and ...

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, ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- We trust hospitals to help make us well. What we don't expect is to get sick in a hospital. But every year, about 648,000 hospital patients develop infections during their stay, and ...

A novel vaccination approach developed by Vanderbilt Health researchers cleared the harmful gut bacterium Clostridioides ...

Children between the ages of one and three had the highest incidence of Clostridium difficile infections of all patients under the age of 18 in 2010 and 2011, according to a study in Pediatrics.

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 ...

In a cruel twist, the bacterium Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) makes us bleed and then uses our blood to defend itself against us. Vanderbilt University Medical Center scientists have identified a ...

When I took antibiotics for a sinus infection, I began feeling weak and feverish, with diarrhea. I went to the ER and learned I had Clostridioides difficile, an infection in the large intestine. The ...