Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. When Clostridium difficile was discovered in 1935, it was ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Exposure to a contaminated nearly doubles a patient’s risk for hospital-onset C. difficile infection. This ...

Infection with the pathogen Clostridium difficile is a significant source of healthcare-associated infections and estimated to account for 12 percent of all HAIs in the U.S.1 C. diff infection is the ...

Patients with Clostridioides difficile infection had different bacterial and fungal composition in their stool compared with that of uninfected patients, researchers found. Distinct species of fungus ...

The study of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) continues to reveal intricate details of its pathogenesis, epidemiology and potential novel therapies. Research has elucidated how the bacterium, ...

In five different studies, researchers explored the impact of various factors on increasing rates of Clostridium difficile infection (C. difficile), such the substantial increase in antibiotic use due ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Lewis and colleagues tested the three EHR-based interventions at three hospitals. The first intervention, ...

The pathogen Clostridium difficile, which causes one of the most common hospital-acquired infections in the United States, may have accomplices that until now have gone largely unnoticed. The pathogen ...

A team of biochemists at the University of Notre Dame has found a possible new way to treat patients infected with Clostridioides difficile, a type of bacteria that causes serious gastrointestinal ...

Sometimes scientists look for new species in the jungle or deep in the oceans. Other times they look in hospital rooms. Researchers reported this week in Nature Genetics that a subset of Clostridium ...

It seemed to come out of nowhere — a virulent strain of bacteria called Clostridium difficile. It picked up that name because when it was first discovered, it was difficult to grow in the lab. C.