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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI or often C. diff) is a potentially catastrophic bacterial gut infection that affects 500,000 Americans each year. Among those afflicted, nearly 120,000 will ...

Vacnomycin has been the gold-standard antibiotic for treating C. diff and many other life-threatening infections since its introduction in 1965. “It’s a great drug.