Hospital Disinfectants Struggling to Kill C. Diff Bacteria Colonies

 Hospital Disinfectants Struggling to Kill C. Diff Bacteria Colonies

Clorox Comes Close, But None Completely Eliminates Superbug HOUSTON, Nov. XX – The deadly and notoriously stubborn superbug, Clostridioides difficile (C. diff), is putting up a winning fight against hospital-grade disinfectants meant to kill it, according to results of a new study published in the Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy journal of the American Society for Microbiology. The C. diff bacterium causes inflammation of the colon with symptoms ranging from diarrhea to life-threatening sepsis and is most common among the elderly […]