“C. difficile has become the most common microbial ... each year,” said Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Tom Frieden, MD, MPH. Antibiotics are known to destroy the ...

C. diff makes spores that are shed in feces and ... with recurrent CDI to promote the growth of healthy bacteria. The CDC ...

Q. My son picked up an infection in the hospital recently. It sounded like the doctors were calling it “see-dift.” It gave him terrible diarrhea. Do you know what this is? A. The doctors were ...

In animal models, this first mRNA-LNP C. difficile vaccine was found to protect against C. difficile first-time infections ...

Germs such as cryptosporidium and clostridioides difficile (C.diff) also survive hand sanitizers ... as outlined on the CDC’s website. To protect against infections, the CDC’s medical ...