Tweet Clostridium difficile is a bacterium that can cause diarrhoea that does not improve. Symptoms include watery stool, abdominal pain, and fever. Patients may develop electrolyte imbalance, malnutrition and pressure sores. They may go on to develop more serious abdominal conditions. Most people colonised with C difficile remain asymptomatic. Research as demonstrated that the organism [...]

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