Visitor contact precautions, or VCPs, a common bulwark against Clostridium difficile in the elderly, may make very little difference in infections when compared with small changes in normal daily ...

At the Canadian facility, between Nov. 19, 2013, and March 7, 2015, admitted patients were screened for C. diff toxin B gene with polymerase chain reaction on a rectal swab. Of the 7,599 patients ...

Researchers conducted a single-center, retrospective cohort study at a 433-bed tertiary medical center in Kentucky. They examined patients treated for C. diff both before and after the implementation ...

Fever, nausea, cramping, and diarrhea — if you have ulcerative colitis (UC), you probably know that those symptoms signal a flare. The same symptoms can also be a Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) ...