What makes C-Diff superbug deadly?

News Type: Event — Seeded on Sun Mar 1, 2009 3:44 PM EST

Article Source: PhysOrg.com

health, diarrhea, antibiotic-resistance, colitis, clostridium-difficile, c-diff, toxin-a, toxin-b

A major breakthrough about the potentially deadly superbug Clostridium difficile (C-diff) could lead to new ways to combat the bacterium, according to a study to be published March 1 in the journal Nature.

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jpark

Good news!

This bug not only causes pain and diarrhea and can kill, it is very difficult to treat.

A new treatment target is sorely needed.

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#1 - Sun Mar 1, 2009 3:45 PM EST

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ffeineandsugar

Good news is always appreciated. Thanks!

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#2 - Sun Mar 1, 2009 4:05 PM EST

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tmullins

Have been trying for years to get the attention of the people ( in Tennessee and Virginia ) who can and should be doing something about this so called superbug and they don't care, all I get is either and excuse, passed on to another state board or agency, or nothing at all! My father went into a local hospital for a three day procedure that turned out to be a ten month long nightmare after getting hospital acquired Methicillan Resistant Staphlococcus Aureaus or (MRSA) he rotted to death.

www.wisecountyissues.com

If you look at my web site, you will see Profit Care comes way ahead of Patient Care in East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia. See on my site what is really deemed, defended and supported as "THE ACCEPTABLE STANDARDS OF HEALTH CARE" in East Tennessee, it's on public record in Federal Court, Greeneville, Tennessee, case no. 2:04-cv-375 and it's nothing in comparison to the slick health care system's misleading advertising.

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#3 - Mon Mar 2, 2009 2:19 AM EST

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Whatever_41

I never understood WHY when the hospital I worked in isolated these patients...they flat out refused to stock the isolation carts with shoe covers...

I was told time and time again, it wasn't needed, if universal precautions were followed, and proper linen handling was followed. I just laughed. These decisions were OBVIOUSLY made up by those who have never cared for a patient with C-DIFF. They lose control of their bowels so completely, they leave a TRAIL trying to get to the bathroom. (and then in embarassment, try to wipe it up themselves, without disinfecting anything)

On my unit, this was rampant. And we all knew why! The nurses had to walk through stool to tend the patient...then, on to the next one!

(and that patient drops his pillow on the floor...MERRY CHRISTMAS! You now have C-DIFF)

SHOE COVERS...SHOE COVERS!

(I would love to see a study that cultured the bacteria on nurses shoes...folks, hospital floors are UNBELIEVABLY foul)

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#4 - Mon Mar 2, 2009 11:21 PM EST

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