New research suggests that antibiotic treatment could be asymptomatically inducing the transmission of the healthcare-acquired infection, C. difficile, contributing to the outbreaks that have recently ...

Nursing assistants are more vulnerable to Clostridium difficile (C. diff) contamination on their hands than other healthcare workers, according to a new study published in Infection Control and ...

Affecting roughly half a million Americans each year, bacterial infections caused by Clostridioides difficile—commonly known ...

Ann Arbor-based University of Michigan Medical School researchers found that calcium in the gut may help Clostridium difficile bacteria germinate. The new research shows C. diff, which forms ...

EPA also released regulatory guidance for test criteria and pesticide claims for these products, specifically “Methods and Guidance for Testing the Efficacy of Antimicrobial Products Against Spores of ...

March 23, 2009 (San Diego, California) — Treating physicians and other healthcare workers should not rely on claims that antimicrobial products can rid their hands of the spore-forming bacterium ...

Researchers studied a toilet with a flushometer that was seeded with C. diff spores in a sealed chamber. They flushed the toilet 24 times and periodically collected postflush bowl water samples and ...

This protocol describes a method combining phase-contrast and fluorescence microscopy, Raman spectroscopy and optical tweezers to characterize the germination of single bacterial spores. The ...

A study from the BBSRC strategically-funded Institute of Food Research has provided new evidence on the background levels of food-poisoning bacteria in raw food to help the food industry deliver safe ...

A team of scientists have modeled the infection cycle of C. difficile by generating a "mouse hospital" with conditions mimicking transmission in the human environment. The scientists suggest that ...