The investigators analyzed data from all adult ICU patients at three affiliated hospitals between 2010 and 2013. They excluded patients who had recent C. diff infections, and focused on patients with ...

Proton pump inhibitors’ use correlates with an increase in rate and severity of hospital-acquired Clostridium difficile infection, a Pharmacotherapy study finds. Researchers examined 41,663 patients ...

Among patients with community-associated Clostridium difficile infection, more than a third had not used antibiotics in the 12 weeks prior to diagnosis and more than half reported limited or no health ...

Clostridiumdifficile infection (also known as C. diff or CDI) is one of the most common hospital-acquired infections and is a frequent cause of death among hospitalized older adults. Keystone ...

In the study, 2.8 percent of the hospitalized patients were infected with C. diff, and 3 percent had evidence of the bacteria but no symptoms of colonization. The study showed that use of antibiotics, ...

But the balance of healthy bacteria may be disrupted after taking antibiotics, leading to an overgrowth of C. diff and the release of toxins. Antibiotics intended to treat infections elsewhere in the ...

After suffering repeated bouts of debilitating Clostridium difficile infections, many patients significantly change their behaviors, but some precautions may do little to prevent future infections, ...

Eric Pifer, MD, chief medical officer for El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, Calif., has deployed a three-pronged strategy for reducing the incidence of C. diff infections at the hospital, according ...

Hospitals are supposed to help sick people get healthy, but unfortunately, many hospitalized patients become sick with infection during their stay. There have been major efforts to reduce the number ...

Researchers in France are warning against the overzealous use of acid-suppressing drugs in infants after finding that the medications are associated with an increase in risk of serious infections ...

A novel vaccination approach developed by Vanderbilt Health researchers cleared the harmful gut bacterium Clostridioides ...