Science news articles about 'bacteria clostridium'

(PhysOrg.com) -- New and emerging strains of the bacteria Clostridium difficile (C.diff) are being studied by scientists in Glasgow, London and Cambridge in an attempt to understand the rise in the ...

... findings, published in BioMed Central’s journal, BMC Infectious Diseases, also show that spores from the nasty bacteria Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) linger in the loo even when it has been ...

... allow a normally non-threatening bacterium, Clostridium sordellii, to gain the upper hand and cause ... very similar to another form of Clostridium bacteria, Clostridium difficile. C. difficile is of great ...

... McDonald told him the infection his mother probably had was of the NAP1 type of the bacteria Clostridium difficile, a virulent strain of a common intestinal bacteria currently plaguing hospitals that ...

... knock-out technology developed in Nottingham to study the function of genes in a 'super' strain of the bacteria Clostridium difficile to discover why it causes more severe disease, kills more people, ...