Recent research shows that gut health may be improved by spending time with your pet, as exposure to their microbiome boosts ...

C. difficile (C. diff) is one of the most common and contagious hospital-acquired infections. Research has found that C. diff spreads more than three times more than previously thought.

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 ...

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 care units more than three times as much as previously thought, researchers reported in JAMA Network Open.

To track infections throughout the health care setting, the researchers sampled for C. diff from nearly 200 patients across two intensive care units (ICUs), as well as collecting thousands of ...

Merck & Co is working a major US hospital provider on a new software system that could help tackle the threat from healthcare-associated C. diff infections. The pharma company’s deal with ...

The ongoing trial is testing the therapy – RBX2660 – as a treatment for Clostridioides difficile infection or C. diff, a bacterium that causes diarrhoea and inflammation in the colon and is a ...

To track infections throughout the health care setting, the researchers sampled for C. diff from nearly 200 patients across two intensive care units (ICUs), as well as collecting thousands of samples ...