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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Frequently, when people hear about Clostridium difficile, they think of hospitals or other healthcare settings. New research, however, suggests the bacterium may be more common in the general ...

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 ...

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 ...

C. diff, which is short for Clostridioides difficile, is a type of bacteria that may cause serious problems in the digestive system. It is one of the most common causes of diarrhea linked to ...

The bacterium Clostridioides difficile is named “difficult” for a reason. Originally, it was hard to grow in the lab, and, now, it’s the source of gut infections that are tough to treat. About half a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Clostridiumdifficile infection (also known as C. diff or CDI) is one of the most common hospital-acquired infections and is a ...

Known as one of the superbugs that resists most antibiotics, Clostridioides difficile, or C. diff, causes inflammation of the colon and can lead to diarrhea and sometimes death. The stubborn bacteria ...

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 ...