The specific bacterium responsible, Clostridium novyi Type A is found in soil and animal droppings.
She said rates of clostridium difficile there were now lower than they were at this time last year.
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The Clostridium perfringens bacterium is a common cause of food poisoning and affects mostly red meat or poultry.
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In 2010, 33 people admitted for surgery or other ailments caught a superbug called Clostridium difficile, or C. diff.
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There have been fears that the heroin involved could be from the same batch contaminated by the clostridium bacteria.
The gut infection Clostridium difficile can be defeated by a cocktail of rival good bacteria, experiments in mice show.
Caused by the bacterium Clostridium perfringens, gas gangrene is a particularly nasty condition.
But ViroPharma, a small Pennsylvania company, is developing a nontoxic strain of Clostridium difficile to help treat hospital infections.
Breast feeding also resulted in a change in microbes, with formula-fed babies showing more Peptostreptococcaceae bacteria and Clostridium difficile.
The specific bacterium identified by scientists as being responsible, Clostridium novyi Type A, is found in soil and animal droppings.
One comes from a bug called Clostridium propionicum, another from a species of Pseudomonas, and two more from Cupriavidus necator.
The Health Protection Agency is investigating the case after the Clostridium perfringens bacterium was found in samples from affected diners.
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Two closely-related strains of Clostridium difficile became antibiotic resistant and were able to rapidly spread to hospitals around the world, a study says.
Doctors prescribed a series of increasingly potent antibiotics to try to knock out the new bad bug, Clostridium difficile (C. diff), but nothing worked.
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Methane is the final product of the anaerobic metabolic pathway of clostridium bacteria breaking down organic matter in the absence of oxygen, primarily cellulose.
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She left her job days before a report into a clostridium difficile (C. diff) outbreak at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust was released.
The number of deaths from two hospital infections, MRSA and Clostridium difficile, has fallen between 2010 and 2011, according to figures for England and Wales.
Prior to the Gulf War, according to the Iraqi government, Baghdad produced 8, 400 liters of anthrax, 19, 000 liters of botulinum and 2, 000 liters each of aflatoxin and clostridium.
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust - which saw a deadly outbreak of clostridium difficile amid serious hygiene lapses between 2004 and 2006 - was rated weak for the third year in a row.
Mark Mellow of the Baptist Medical Centre in Oklahoma City uses such faecal transplants to treat infections of Clostridium difficile, a bug that causes severe diarrhoea and other symptoms, particularly among patients already in hospital.
Coli, salmonella, botulism and various clostridium bacteria.
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