Nearly half a million Americans suffer from C. difficile infections in single year

Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) caused almost half a million infections among patients in the United States in a single year, according to a new study released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). C. difficile causes an inflammation of the colon and deadly diarrhea.


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General: incidence burden Diarrhea HAI CDI C.diff C. difficile C. diff Clostridium difficile cdiff see diff deadly diarrheal infection healthcare-associated infection half a million infections

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