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 ...

Nearly 10 percent of patients were infected with Clostridium difficile when they entered a Minnesota hospital, according to a study in the American Journal of Infection Control. Researchers studied ...

People who take proton-pump inhibitor medications are at increased risk for developing a Clostridium difficile infection, according to a recently published study that supports findings from previous ...

A cluster of factors may help predict which patients are likely to develop Clostridioides difficile, a potentially life-threatening disease commonly known as C. difficile or C. diff, a new study has ...

Gastric suppression medication use increases risk of recurrent Clostridium difficile infection, according to a study conducted by Rochester, Minn.-based researchers and published in JAMA Internal ...

People infected with Clostridium difficile were five times more likely to die if they had recently taken stomach acid medications, a new study revealed. Too much stomach acid can cause pain and ...