Clostridium Difficile Loves Sugar and Resists Disinfectant

Antibiotic resistance is a growing public health concern that won't go away by itself.

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

• The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that 15,000 die every year from Clostridium difficile, a bacterium that may trigger watery diarrhea, fever, dehydration and kidney failure. It is evolving to a superbug, and has adapted to sugars commonly found in a Western diet. It also produces spores capable of resisting disinfe…