Lance Peterson Lance Peterson, Evanston Northwestern Healthcare, Illinois The bacterium clostridium difficile that can cause diarrhoea in hospital patients is making a resurgence. It’s potential
Lance Peterson
Lance Peterson, Evanston Northwestern Healthcare, IllinoisThe bacterium clostridium difficile that can cause diarrhoea in hospital patients is making a resurgence. It’s potentially very aggressive, and it’s not so easy to detect any more. But a new real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test reported at the ICAAC conference looking for genes involved with production of the C. difficile product: toxin B promises to help fight the problem.
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