The pathogen C. diff -- the most common cause of health care-associated infectious diarrhea -- can use a compound that kills the human gut's resident microbes to survive and grow, giving it a ...

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 ...

A new study from North Carolina State University shows that the inflammation caused by Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) infection gives the pathogen a two-fold advantage: by both creating an ...

C. diff is a horrible disease that can cause significant morbidity. It can and often does recur and kills around 30,000 Americans every year. We have made progress in prevention and treatment, but ...

Clostridium difficile is an unpleasant, sometimes severe, and potentially lethal infection. It is an enteric pathogen whose armory involves the production of a toxin leading to gut dysphoria and ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a 76-year-old male who is in relatively good health. For the past six months, I have been experiencing diarrhea on and off. I initially spoke to my general physician, and he ...

Gastrointestinal viruses often come along with community-acquired Clostridioides difficile infection (CA-CDI), CDC researchers said. Adult and pediatric patients with CA-CDI showed 12% prevalence of ...

The bacterium Clostridioides difficile is named “difficult” for a reason. Originally, it was hard to grow in the lab, and, now, it’s the source of gut infections that are tough to treat. About half a ...

Researchers from Wake Forest School of Medicine in North Carolina have demonstrated that a common diabetes drug inhibits the spread of Clostridioides difficile, or C. diff—a potentially ...

Matthew Munneke, left, and Eric Skaar, PhD, MPH, use anaerobic chambers to study bacteria like C. diff that die in the presence of oxygen. The pathogen C. diff — the most common cause of health ...