ATLANTA -According to a new study, more than 10,000 people are hospitalized with a dangerous intestinal superbug in a year and the number is on increase with the passage of time.

The gut superbug that is challenging to some antibiotics has become a permanent danger in hospitals and nursing homes. The study showed that there were around 300,000 hospitalizations in 2005 that was double than in 2000.

The infection, known as Clostridium difficile, usually found in the colon and causes diarrhea and serious condition calls colitis. Spores in the feces be the cause of its spread and these spores cannot be easily killed with usual house cleaners and antibacterial soap.

Clostridium difficile that is also known as C-diff is quite challenging to some antibiotics that are effective against other colon bacteria and usually when patients are treated with those antibiotics most of other bacteria die but C-diff bursts out.

Before 2000, there were rare observed cases of C-diff‘s virulent strain.

“This infection is changing its characteristic and becoming more severe” stated Dr. L. Clifford McDonald, a Center for Disease Control and Prevention expert.

According to Dr. Marya Zilberberg, a University of Massachusetts researcher and lead author of the study, some other factors, like a larger number of patients who are old and sick, play a vital role into the rise of C-diff cases and overuse or inappropriate use of antibiotics can be considered another factor.

The study was based on more than 36m yearly discharges from non-governmental U.S. hospitals and this data has been used to produce the study’s national estimates.
The research is being published in the June issue of CDC publication’s Emerging Infectious Diseases.

The scientists found that 2.3 percent of the cases during 2004 were fatal that caused 5,500 deaths and it was double than the proportion of cases of C-diff associated cases during 2000.

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