To conduct the study, researchers placed C. diff spores directly onto surgical gowns in liquid for 10 seconds, 30 seconds, 1 minute, 5 minutes and 10 minutes before they were removed and discarded.

C. diff-associated diarrhea (CDAD) places financial stress on U.S. hospitals. A study of 170,000 discharges from 477 hospitals from 2009-2011 calculated that a CDAD case can increase a hospital stay ...

What are the characteristics of C. difficile infection? Clostridium difficile is a Gram-positive bacterium that induces inflammation in the intestine via two toxins, namely TcdA and TcdB. A variety of ...

It lurks in hospitals and nursing homes, preying upon patients already weak from disease or advanced age. It kills nearly 30,000 Americans a year, and sickens half a million more. But new research ...

Affecting roughly half a million Americans each year, bacterial infections caused by Clostridioides difficile - commonly known as C. diff - are a serious and persistent problem for patients and ...