Clostridioides difficile, or C. diff, infections killed more than one in 10 cases in 2023/4 and costs the NHS tens of thousands of pounds. Doctors are now also warning that cases and deaths could ...

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

There were 237 cases of hospital-onset C. diff. Exposure to a contaminated bed was associated with a 1.8 times greater chance for getting C. diff in the hospital.

C. diff is a life-threatening bacterial infection that causes diarrhea and colitis, which is the inflammation of the colon. Approximately 600,000 are diagnosed with C. diff each year in the United ...

More than 450,000 C. diff infections are reported in the United States each year, leading to as many as 30,000 deaths, according to public health estimates.

C. diff has a profound economic impact on the healthcare system and patients due to recurrences, hospitalization, prolonged length of stay, and the cost of treatment which amount to roughly $2.8 ...

Clostridioides difficile, also called C. diff, is a ubiquitous source of gastrointestinal misery, typically causing diarrhea and colitis (inflammation of the colon).It’s estimated that nearly ...

Fecal microbiota transplant might be considered for first-line treatment of Clostridioides difficile (C. diff), based on noninferiority findings from a randomized, open-label trial.. A similar ...

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 ...

The superbug Clostridioides difficile, or C. diff, can cause dangerous gut infections. There are limited options for treating it, and patients often experience reinfection, which can be deadly.