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holyrood.com - The Business of Politics - MSPs back public inquiry ...
Following a BBC Scotland report into the death of 18 patients at the Dunbartonshire hospital, Professor High Pennington, an emeritus professor of bacteriology, has suggested that C.diff has been more of a contributory factor than has ...

Tainted meats point to superbug C. diff in food « Heidi-Lore's Musings
More than 40 percent of packaged meats sampled from three Arizona chain stores tested positive for Clostridium difficile, a gut bug known as C. diff., according to newly complete analysis of 2006 data collected by a University of ...

Tainted meats point to superbug C. diff in food: Study finds gut ...
Tainted meats point to superbug C. diff in food: Study finds gut germ in 40 percent of grocery meats.

TheSpec.com - Local - C. diff rates dwarf estimates
Daily Local Ontario newspaper, news for Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

Evening Star - C-Diff increase prompts new campaign
Ipswich Evening Star: News, business, sport, homes, jobs and cars for Ipswich and Felixstowe.

HIV and ID Observations – Promising C diff Rx, and Google as ...
Bad enough when it happens once, relapsing C diff is one of the modern plagues for which our bag of tricks sometimes comes up woefully short. (Anything that tests stool transplants as a therapy is pretty desperate. ...

C. diff rate in hospitals 20 times greater than previously thought ...
The finding was followed by a report by the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology that 13 out of every 1000 patients are infected by C. diff (Clostridium difficile), or were carriers of the bacteria. ...

C. diff Epidemic Likely to Get Worse
The nation's epidemic of the nasty superbug Clostridium difficile, or C. diff, will likely get worse before it gets better, says a panel of experts.

C. Diff Pandemic Linked to Antibiotic Use « TRUTH ABOUT PROBIOTICS
Just this week, this MSNBC article reported, “C. Diff, a virulent, drug-resistant gut infection that causes potentially deadly diarrhea, especially among the old and sick, is up to 20 times more common than previously thought, ...

C. diff Epidemic: What You Must Know
As the C. diff epidemic spreads -- and as the gut bug becomes more deadly and drug resistant -- this WebMD FAQ tells you what you must know.