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 ...

C. diff, which is short for Clostridioides difficile, is a type of bacteria that may cause serious problems in the digestive system. It is one of the most common causes of diarrhea linked to ...

A new imaging approach used microscopic glowing tags to reveal gene activity in individual C. diff cells in gut tissue samples from infected mice. Here, a resulting image shows a round cross-section ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: We have a friend hospitalized with C. diff several months ago after working at an assisted-living facility. How do we minimize the risk to our family when this person visits our home?

One of the most common health care-associated infections spreads within intensive care units (ICUs) more than three times more than previously thought, new research has found. There's a lot going on ...

The bacterium Clostridium difficile — otherwise known as C. diff — spreads within intensive care units more than three times as much as previously thought, according to a study published on April 4 in ...

Two TikTokers have gone viral for warning against the bacteria C. diff, which one says is having an uptick in cases. Mars, 20, (@m4r5hi) has personal experience with C. diff. In their video, they say ...