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Laboratory-Acquired Clostridium difficile by Annet Lenderink Patient Expert Posted Wed 04 Nov 2009 10:03pm Laboratory‐Acquired Clostridium difficile Polymerase Chain Reaction Ribotype 027: A New Risk for Laboratory Workers? Clostridium difficile is not recognized as a pathogen... of C.difficile infection in 2 technicians working with PCR ribotype 027 strains. One case in the Netherlands and one in Spain. Read More… Laboratory‐Acquired Clostridium difficile Read on »
Clostridium difficile or C. Diff by Haveyroo Posted Fri 31 Jul 2009 11:53am FROM MSNBC site about C. Diff Scientists cultured the imprint of a health care worker's gloved hand after examining a patient infected with Clostridium difficile, known... for Clostridium difficile or C. Diff. I have found articles on MSNBC about it. It is a very serious virus and we are taking all the precautions we can. After work yesterday I ran over Read on »
bedtime reading: Clostridium difficile infection: how to deal with the problem by Dr. Donal O'Donoghue Patient Expert Posted Thu 28 May 2009 12:22am All healthcare staff should take personal responsibility for good infection control practice. Doctors and nurses should apply the following mnemonic protocol (site) when managing suspected potential infectious diarrhoea: S Suspect that a case may be infective where there is no clear alternative cause for diarrhoea I Isolate the patient and ... Read on »
Clostridium difficile by flakymn Posted Thu 12 Mar 2009 12:00am , drinking more, anything, and everything to no avail. I just kept feeling sick. So yesterday, I went for some other testing and it seems I have an infection called Clostridium Read on »
Why You Should Care About Treatment with Monoclonal Antibodies against Clostridium difficile Toxins by Dr. Matthew M. Medical Doctor Posted Thu 21 Jan 2010 5:47am The New England Journal of Medicine just published an article regarding using monoclonal antibodies to treat clostridium difficile toxins (called C.diff). This is a very small study regarding a condition that most people are not familiar with. However, it is very representative of the future of medicine and findings like this have major Read on »
MRSA bacteraemia and Clostridium difficile infections by Dr. Donal O'Donoghue Patient Expert Posted Wed 09 Dec 2009 12:00am The Health Protection Agency is now publishing quarterly analyses on MRSA and Clostridium difficile rates. These make interesting reading. There has been good progress... but we shouldn’t be complacent. Kidney services remain with the highest rate of all specialities, zero tolerance needs to be maintained. Clostridium difficile infection rates Read on »
Laboratory‐Acquired Clostr ... by Annet Lenderink Patient Expert Posted Wed 04 Nov 2009 10:03pm Laboratory‐Acquired Clostridium difficile Polymerase Chain Reaction Ribotype 027: A New Risk for Laboratory Workers? Clostridium difficile is not recognized as a pathogen... of C.difficile infection in 2 technicians working with PCR ribotype 027 strains. One case in the Netherlands and one in Spain. Read More… Laboratory‐Acquired Clostridium difficile Read on »
Enteropathic Arthritis by Corry C. Patient Expert Posted Mon 16 Aug 2010 7:13am Enteropathic Arthritis is classified as one of the spondylarthropathies and includes several conditions related to the Gastrointestinal tract such as:- Bacterial infections like Shigella, Salmonella, Campylobacter, Yersinia species and Clostridium difficile.- Parasitic infections like Strongyloides stercoralis, Giardia lamblia, Ascaris lumbricoides Read on »
Top 10 New GMOs for 2007 by Linda MacDonald Glenn Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted Tue 26 Aug 2008 11:40am . Cancer-fighting Clostridium bacteria 9. Schizophrenic mice 10. Yeast with poison-sensing rat genes For the full article, click here . Read on »
Super Bug in Supermarket Meat... by DiseaseProof Medical Doctor Posted Fri 21 Nov 2008 10:18am Bad news for meat mongers! Clostridium difficile, a bacteria normally linked with severe hospital infections, was found in 40% of meat products tested from 3 national supermarket chains and ground beef, pork, turkey and sausage contain a “super” strain of the bacteria; via MSNBC. Gross! And previous reports have linked deli meat with listeria Read on »