Clostridium difficile
Britishnoun
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Fecal microbe transplants from healthy donors can treat patients with recurrent Clostridium difficile infections.
From Science Daily • Oct. 13, 2023
That means they can kill off good bacteria and lead to the overgrowth of potentially dangerous ones such as Clostridium difficile or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
From Scientific American • Oct. 5, 2023
People with recurrent illness caused by hard-to-treat bacterium Clostridium difficile can be offered faecal transplants, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has said.
From BBC • Aug. 30, 2022
Pictured here is a scanning electron micrograph of Clostridium difficile, a Gram- positive, rod-shaped bacterium that causes severe diarrhea.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
Excessive abdominal noise is an uncommon, but not unprecedented, presenting symptom of infection with the bacteria Clostridium difficile, which can be fatal.
From "Turtles All the Way Down" by John Green
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