A new study reveals that the deadly C. diff infection spreads much faster and lingers longer in ICUs than previously believed ...

Environmental surfaces and health care personnel (HCP) hands play an important role in Clostridioides difficile transmission ...

A total of 7,000 samples were collected across 278 unique ICU admissions over the course of the study, with 177 patients ...

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 ...

C. diff, a dangerous and highly contagious infection, spreads in hospitals much more than previously believed, especially ...

C. diff typically infects people whose gut bacteria has been wiped out by powerful antibiotics, according to the U.S. Centers ...

Their findings, published March 25 in the journal Cell Host & Microbe, increase understanding of the molecular drivers of C. diff infection and point to novel therapeutic strategies. C. diff causes ...

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Research has found that C. difficile, one of the most common and contagious hospital-acquired infections, spreads more than three times more than previously thought, moving covertly from surface to ...

The highly contagious Clostridium difficil spreads more than three times as much within intensive care unit environments as ...

A study published in the journal Cell Host & Microbe by Brazilian and American researchers suggests that a diet rich in ...

A recent study discovered that a prevalent hospital-borne infection has been widely spreading through hospitals.According to ...