We have had several residents with C. diff. Their families are asking if there is support available for them. Our staff wonders too. Can you assist? A C. diff. diagnosis can be traumatic. Many ...

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 hospitals ...

Eat foods with probiotics like yogurt and kefir to help replenish good bacteria in your gut. A C. diff diet should include ...

C. diff is a type of bacteria that can cause diarrhea, abdominal pain, and tenderness. It is commonly treated with antibiotics such as fidaxomicin (Dificid) and vancomycin (Firvanq). C. diff, short ...

Recurrent C. diff infection is when you contract a C. diff infection 2 to 8 weeks after completing treatment for a previous one. C. diff relapse is a recurrence of the same strain, while reinfection ...

The first new drug in more than 50 years to tackle the deadly C.diff stomach bug goes on sale today. It is hoped that Dificlir will save some of the 3,000 lives lost annually to the disease. However, ...

Trillions of bacteria, viruses and other tiny organisms — called “microbes” — live inside our bodies and make up a community known as the microbiome. The diversity of microbes is like a rainforest in ...

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 ...