Gastric suppression medication use increases risk of recurrent Clostridium difficile infection, according to a study conducted by Rochester, Minn.-based researchers and published in JAMA Internal ...

A trained dog can detect Clostridium difficile in stool samples and in hospital patients, according to a study in the British Medical Journal. Researchers studied a two-year-old beagle trained to ...

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 ...