Approximately 500,000 Americans develop C. difficile infections each year, and about 30,000 die. Further, patients who make ...

Q. My son picked up an infection in the hospital recently. It sounded like the doctors were calling it “see-dift.” It gave him terrible diarrhea. Do you know what this is? A. The doctors were ...

Researchers studied 187 isolates of C. difficile collected from patients ... Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Severe Clostridium difficile-associated disease in populations previously ...