C. diff, the most frequent cause of nosocomial diarrhea, disproportionately affects older adults. The investigators collected C. diff samples from 177 patients across two ICUs, as well as 7,000 ...

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 ...

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 ...