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 ...

For example, some C. diff cells have flagella, long wiggly appendages that help them move around, while others don’t. This makes choosing a target for a vaccine tricky.

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 ...

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Patients admitted to the hospital between 2010-13 were included in the analysis if they were younger than 65, had a C. diff infection diagnosis in 2011, had at least 12 months of continuous ...

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

The bacterium Clostridium difficile — otherwise known as C. diff — spreads within intensive care units more than three times as much as previously thought, according to a study published on ...

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 causes about 500,000 infections and more than 29,000 deaths in the United States each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and treatment options are limited.