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 ...

Researchers at Tufts University School of Medicine are studying C. diff at multiple levels, from how individual bacterial ...

To conduct the study, researchers placed C. diff spores directly onto surgical gowns in liquid for 10 seconds, 30 seconds, 1 minute, 5 minutes and 10 minutes before they were removed and discarded.