Clostridium difficile: Back in Hospitals and Meaning Business

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Clostridium difficile: Back in Hospitals and Meaning Business

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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.
[audio:https://www.audiomedica.com/podcasting/icaac2005/lance_peterson.mp3]

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