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In addition to less antibiotic use, participating hospitals saw a 20% drop in hospital-onset C difficile.

Data indicate amoxicillin-clavulanate is safe and effective and may cut the risk of fluoroquinolone-related harms.

Living with a family member with C difficile increased the risk of contracting the disease 12-fold.

The findings suggest that prevention efforts, particularly in hospitals, are yielding benefits.

The alert comes after 6 patients were infected with diarrhea-causing E coli following FMT.

The drugs were linked to a more than 70% increase in the odds of intestinal colonization with resistant bacteria.

Resistant bacteria and fungi cause more than 2.8 million infections and 35,000 deaths a year in the United States, a new report says.

More than 80% of the dogs' positive findings are in the general hospital environment.

Genomic analysis suggests C difficile strains that have spread in hospitals belong to an emerging species.

One patient is dead and one ill after contracting drug-resistant E coli after FMT.