C. diff typically infects people whose gut bacteria has been wiped out by powerful antibiotics, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The opportunistic bacterium ...

A C. diff (Clostridioides difficile) diet may help alleviate diarrhea (the primary symptom) that is associated with this ...

C. diff, or Clostridioides difficile, is a germ that can cause diarrhea and colitis and in some instances can be life ...

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 April 4 in ...

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 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 ...

Clostridium difficile infection—commonly called C. diff—causes diarrhea, abdominal pain, and fever and is lethal in about 6% of cases in the U.S. The disease is highly contagious, but in ...

The bacterium Clostridium difficile – commonly called C. diff – spreads within intensive ... in and displaces healthy bacteria, causing diarrhea, abdominal pain and fever.

More than half the time, C. diff passed between patients who weren ... bacterium moves in and displaces healthy bacteria, causing diarrhea, abdominal pain and fever. The bacterium is exceptionally ...