The pathogen C. diff - the most common cause of health care-associated infectious diarrhea - can use a compound that kills ...

Goodpasture Professor of Pathology and director of the Vanderbilt Institute for Infection, Immunology and Inflammation. The group focused on nucleotides -- the building blocks of DNA and RNA ...

C. diff causes nearly 30,000 deaths each year in the US, says Ferring, and recurrent infections with the bacterium make up 10%-15% of all hospital-treated infections.