Proton pump inhibitors’ use correlates with an increase in rate and severity of hospital-acquired Clostridium difficile infection, a Pharmacotherapy study finds. Researchers examined 41,663 patients ...

The hospital-acquired infection Clostridium difficile, which causes inflammation of the colon and can be deadly among elderly patients, may be spread outside the hospital setting via food, according ...

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 ...