ICAAC 2005

Clostridium difficile: Back in Hospitals and Meaning Business

January 7, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment
Lance Peterson
Lance Peterson

Lance Peterson, Evanston Northwestern Healthcare, Illinois
The bacterium clostridium difficile that can cause diarrhoea in hospital patients is making a resurgence. It’s potentially very aggressive, and it’s not so easy to detect any more. But a new real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test reported at the ICAAC conference looking for genes involved with production of the C. difficile product: toxin B promises to help fight the problem.

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