Wearing outdoor shoes inside is unhygienic. Here’s the proof - Outdoor shoes carry bacteria, allergens and toxic chemicals – ...

My mother has always had one unbreakable rule: no outdoor shoes inside the house. It didn't matter who you were—family member ...

Botulism is a rare but potentially fatal illness caused by botulinum toxin, a toxin produced by a bacterium called Clostridium botulinum. In the United States, most cases of foodborne botulism are ...

difficile toxin by enzyme immunoassay or cell cytotoxicity assay who had been treated with metronidazole or vancomycin for less than 24 hours were eligible for enrollment. Only patients with a ...

Purpose: Current and future treatment modalities for Clostridium difficile-associated disease (CDAD) are reviewed. Conclusion: CDAD is a major concern for health care systems and clinicians.

A group of gut bacteria successfully hindered recurrent Clostridium difficile infection in mice, offering alternative therapeutic strategies to antibiotics and fecal transplant. To investigate whether ...

Now a team in China says that more aggressive forms of the disease may be linked to three bacterias in the gut - Fusobacterium, Clostridium and Shewanella - that can become more common because of a ...

Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) infection (CDI), the clinical ... spore-forming bacillus that produces toxins, including TcdA and TcdB, two large-molecules that damage intestinal mucosa and ...