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This Dangerous Bacteria Hitchhikes on Hospital Staff to Other Rooms
In a nutshell By sampling hospital surfaces and healthcare workers’ hands, not just patients, researchers found 3.6 times ...
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Study: C. diff spreads within hospital ICUs three times more than original estimates
The bacterium Clostridium difficile — otherwise known as C. diff — spreads within intensive care units more than three times as much as previously thought, according to a study published on April 4 in ...
Hospital study finds C. diff spreads three times more than thought
One of the most common health-care-associated infections spreads within intensive care units (ICUs) more than three times ...
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What to Eat When You Have C. Diff (Clostridioides Difficile)
Clostridioides difficile (previously known as Clostridium difficile) is a highly contagious organism that primarily impacts ...
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New study reveals hidden spread of C. diff in intensive care units
The results published in JAMA Network Open as "Environmental and Health Care Personnel Sampling and Unobserved Clostridium difficile Transmission in ICU." The study was funded by the National ...
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Ferring’s gut microbiome drug clears phase 3 trial in C. diff
C. diff causes nearly 30,000 deaths each year in the US, says Ferring, and recurrent infections with the bacterium make up 10%-15% of all hospital-treated infections.
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What does a faecal transplant do?
Surgeon Gabriel Weston travelled to Rhode Island in the US to watch Dr Colleen Kelly perform a faecal transplant — a procedure that has a 90% success rate when used to treat the life-threatening ...