The pathogen C. diff—the most common cause of health care-associated infectious diarrhea—can use a compound that kills the human gut's resident microbes to survive and grow, giving it a competitive ...
On four legs and covered in fur, Angus isn’t the typical hospital employee. But the two-year-old English springer spaniel is working at Vancouver General Hospital in Canada to stop the spread of ...
Matthew Munneke, left, and Eric Skaar, PhD, MPH, use anaerobic chambers to study bacteria like C. diff that die in the presence of oxygen. The pathogen C. diff — the most common cause of health ...