Researchers at Mayo Clinic in Rochester say infections with clostridium difficile are increasingly common "and more severe in hospitalized children and the elderly, in large part due to greater use of antibiotics."
Clostridium "is the most common cause of diarrhea in hospitals and is linked to 14,000 U.S. deaths each year."
Mayo researchers analyzed five years of data from the National Hospital Discharge Survey that included 46,176 children with clostridium.
