The CDC provides a free online video for healthcare providers on testing for Clostridium difficile. In the video, Dr. Carolyn Gould, a medical epidemiologist in the Division of Healthcare Quality ...

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 ...

C. diff colitis is inflammation of a person’s colon due to contagious bacteria. Most people with C. diff colitis fully recover, but in rare cases the condition can be life threatening. It is possible ...

Recurrent C. diff infection is when you contract a C. diff infection 2 to 8 weeks after completing treatment for a previous one. C. diff relapse is a recurrence of the same strain, while reinfection ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: We have a friend hospitalized with C. diff several months ago after working at an assisted-living facility. How do we minimize the risk to our family when this person visits our home?

While hospitals are intended to be places of healing, people can acquire nasty infections with drug-resistant bacteria during a stay there. The bacterium Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) is ...

SAN BRUNO, CA, April 30 – C. diff-associated disease (CDAD), otherwise known as severe intestinal disease brought on by the Clostridium difficile (C. diff) pathogen, has been the subject of heightened ...

Fever, nausea, cramping, and diarrhea — if you have ulcerative colitis (UC), you probably know that those symptoms signal a flare. The same symptoms can also be a Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) ...

A novel vaccination approach developed by Vanderbilt Health researchers cleared the harmful gut bacterium Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) in an animal model of infection. An experimental vaccine ...