C. diff uses toxic compound to fuel growth advantage, researchers discover
The pathogen C. diff—the most common cause of health care-associated infectious diarrhea—can use a compound that kills the ...
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More than 500 cases of C diff reported so far this year
Meanwhile, A new report from the Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC) found that 605 cases of C diff were reported last October, November and December. Of these cases, 272 were deemed to be ...
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For C. diff, antibiotic resistance comes at a cost
Knowing how C. difficile fights back against antibiotics ... they can't survive long enough to evolve faster growth or better transmission. "Catching an emerging resistance problem would mean ...
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C. diff uses toxic compound to fuel growth advantage
The pathogen C. diff -- the most common cause of health care-associated infectious diarrhea -- can use a compound that kills the human gut's resident microbes to survive and grow, giving it a ...