Newly discovered iron storage 'ferrosomes' inside the bacterium C. diff -- the leading cause of hospital-acquired infections -- are important for infection in an animal model and could offer new ...

Healthcare organizations are continuously on guard against fatal hospital pathogens, but emerging viral pathogens are beginning to present new threats. Clorox Healthcare voluntarily tested its Bleach ...

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 ...

Clostridium difficile caused nearly half a million infections in U.S. patients in 2011, and C. diff infections kill roughly 15,000 Americans each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and ...

Charles Darkoh, Ph.D., a researcher at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) School of Public Health, was recently awarded a five-year, $1.9 million R01 grant by the ...

Dear Doctors: I was sick for months with debilitating pain, extreme weight loss, fatigue and loss of appetite. I was diagnosed with C. diff related to an abdominal surgery. I’m being treated with ...

A three-step intervention that included a dedicated disinfection team reduced the rate of Clostridium difficile infection in a hospital by 89 percent, according to a study in Infection Control and ...

Clostridium difficile bacteria, computer illustration. C. difficile is a normal inhabitant of the human intestine, but it can become a pathogen when antibiotics disrupt the normal intestinal flora and ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- We trust hospitals to help make us well. What we don't expect is to get sick in a hospital. But every year, about 648,000 hospital patients develop infections during their stay, and ...

Q: I was sick for months with debilitating pain, extreme weight loss, fatigue and loss of appetite. I was diagnosed with C. diff related to an abdominal surgery. I’m being treated with antibiotics, ...

People with pneumonia who have experienced Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) infections may be able to reduce recurrences if they take doxycycline instead of the standard treatment. The study comes ...