Clostridium difficile bacteria, computer illustration. C. difficile is a normal inhabitant of the human intestine, but it can become a pathogen when antibiotics disrupt the normal intestinal flora and ...

There are trillions of bacteria that live in your colon. Most of them are harmless and many are actually helpful, supporting digestion and keeping your immune system strong. C. diff is one type of ...

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

A patient with C. difficile has died in a non-surgical unit of the Juravinski Hospital, which currently has an outbreak of the bacterial infection. The patient was part of the initial group of cases ...

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 ...

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 ...

March 23, 2010 (Atlanta, Georgia) — Hospital-onset healthcare-facility-associated Clostridium difficile infections (CDI) have increased in incidence and have surpassed methicillin-resistant ...

There are about half a million C. diff infections every year in the United States. About 30,000 people die from them annually. But if you’ve had C. diff, you’re more likely to get it again. About 1 in ...

The mandatory requirement that Ontario hospitals report their C. difficile rates seems to have been followed by fewer such infections, a new study suggests. In Tuesday's issue of PLoS Medicine, ...

Clostridium difficile is a dangerous, and often fatal, infection plaguing nearly half a million U.S. people annually, according to CDC 2011 data. 1. Following their initial C. diff infection, almost ...

Dogs have proven themselves to be effective ‘physicians’ in the medical world – many trained canines are capable of detecting everything from life-threatening cancers, to drops in blood sugar and ...

Susan Gottlieb recalls being wracked with unspeakable pain. Donna Gerek talks about the loneliness of a hospital isolation unit. And David Gould says he was considered a Typhoid Mary when fellow ...