Superdog For Superbugs: Dogs Sniff Out Clostridium Difficile Infections In Poop This Christmas In BMJ
Friday, December 14, 2012 - 04:40
in Health & Medicine
Dogs can sniff out Clostridium difficile, the infective agent that is responsible for many of the dreaded "hospital acquired infections", in stool samples and even in the air surrounding patients in hospital with a very high degree of accuracy, finds a study in the Christmas issue published on bmj.com today. Yes, dogs can smell a superbug infection in poop. Can you smell a rat at BMJ this Christmas? The findings, they write in one of this year's spoofs, support previous studies of dogs detecting various types of cancer and could have great potential for screening hospital wards to help prevent C. difficile outbreaks, say the researchers. read more