When Roye-Horn alerted the CDC to the changes in C. diff patients at Hunterdon, she discovered that it was among the first hospitals in the United States to develop the NAP1 strain. At the time there ...

The bacterium C. difficile causes one of the most common infections in hospitals and nursing homes. After climbing for decades, the rate of new... The risk of getting a deadly, treatment-resistant ...

The Hunterdon task force made an appeal to hospital administration for more cleaning staff after it determined how many additional high-touch surfaces needed to be cleaned in the patient environment. ...

Researchers conducted a model-based economic evaluation to find the cost-effective healthcare intervention for lowering C. diff rates. They synthesized efficacy evidence from research literature and ...

The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology provides a free, downloadable and adaptable environmental checklist using sodium hypochlorite for daily cleaning when C. diff is ...

Late last year, The Jewish Hospital-Mercy Health in Cincinnati received a first-place award in a multi-state competition for its efforts to reduce Clostridium difficile infections among inpatients.

When I took antibiotics for a sinus infection, I began feeling weak and feverish, with diarrhea. I went to the ER and learned I had Clostridioides difficile, an infection in the large intestine. The ...

What are the characteristics of C. difficile infection? Clostridium difficile is a Gram-positive bacterium that induces inflammation in the intestine via two toxins, namely TcdA and TcdB. A variety of ...

C. diff colitis is inflammation of a person’s colon due to contagious bacteria. Most people with C. diff colitis fully recover, but in rare cases the condition can be life threatening. It is possible ...