A trained dog can detect Clostridium difficile in stool samples and in hospital patients, according to a study in the British Medical Journal. Researchers studied a two-year-old beagle trained to ...

Make sure to disinfect beds properly after they are used by someone with Clostridioides difficile, or C. diff. According to a new study, staying in a bed previously used by a person with C. diff ...

A person’s biology may play more of a role in how Clostridioides difficile, or C. diff, spreads more so than healthcare facility preventive measures, a new study finds. This means that transmission of ...

The prevalence of Clostridioides difficile has risen in recent years, and although its carriage is recognized in infancy, limited data exist on its longitudinal trends. Results of a large longitudinal ...

Clostridium difficile infections may originate outside of hospital settings more often than previously thought, according to a study published in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology. For the ...

Clostridioides difficile/Clostridium difficile (C. diff) is a bacterial infection and is the most common cause of healthcare-associated diarrhea. C. diff has two distinct presentations, primary and ...