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<title>Inbox Robot: Clostridium Difficile News</title>
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<title>C. Diff discovered at Altnagelvin</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=199387150</link>
<pubDate>20 Nov 2008 07:10 GMT</pubDate>
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... Clostridium Difficile (C. Diff) has been discovered within the Intensive Care Unit at Altnagelvin Hospital. Staff  ...
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<title>FDA Advisory Committee Provides Opinion on Oritavancin for the Treatment of Complicated Skin and Skin Structure Infections</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=199359542</link>
<pubDate>20 Nov 2008 02:30 GMT</pubDate>
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...  a program to develop an oral version of oritavancin for the possible treatment of Clostridium difficile infection. The Company has operations in Cambridge, MA, Indianapolis, IN, and Montreal, Quebec, Canada.  ...
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<title>C. diff Found in Meats</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=199312423</link>
<pubDate>19 Nov 2008 20:53 GMT</pubDate>
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...  food, reports MSNBC.com. These data suggest that domestic animals  may be source of C. difficile  said J. Glenn Songer, a professor of veterinary science at the Tucson school  ...
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<title>Antibiotics hit guts longer than thought</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=199281781</link>
<pubDate>19 Nov 2008 18:08 GMT</pubDate>
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...  cure one problem can give rise to another - for instance yeast infections or C. difficile diarrhea. But it is not clear just how much damage the drugs wreak on  ...
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<title>Antibiotics disrupt gut longer than previously thought, study shows</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=199269881</link>
<pubDate>19 Nov 2008 16:55 GMT</pubDate>
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...  cure one problem can give rise to another  for instance, yeast infections or C. difficile diarrhea. &#39;The things that we see getting knocked out or knocked down are typically  ...
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<title>Frozen Dinners Recalled, Rising Blood Donations and Bullied Children</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=199252792</link>
<pubDate>19 Nov 2008 15:27 GMT</pubDate>
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...  only crime as a child was being different. A potentially deadly intestinal bacterium called Clostridium difficile, which usually infects hospital patients, has been , msnbc.com reports, raising the possibility that  ...
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<title>Politicians demand fatal bug probe</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=199225079</link>
<pubDate>19 Nov 2008 12:52 GMT</pubDate>
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... Politicians have called for a full public inquiry into Clostridium difficile after a BBC programme into an outbreak which was linked to the deaths of  ...
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<title>Fatal bug families call for justice</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=199208955</link>
<pubDate>19 Nov 2008 10:54 GMT</pubDate>
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... Lessons still need to be learned about a Clostridium difficile outbreak which was linked to the deaths of 18 hospital patients, a relative of  ...
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<title>Hidden dangers</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=199185537</link>
<pubDate>19 Nov 2008 07:32 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Even the bacteria that we fight the hardest, like MRSA (a nose specialist) and C. difficile (a gut specialist), have shown themselves to be cunning enemies. We may be beginning  ...
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<title>C.diff &#39;a factor in more deaths&#39;</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=199137151</link>
<pubDate>19 Nov 2008 02:01 GMT</pubDate>
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... Clostridium difficile infection is a greater contributory factor to deaths in Scottish hospitals than currently recorded,  ...
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<title>Expert warns dangerous MRSA bacteria on the rise</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=199134303</link>
<pubDate>19 Nov 2008 01:16 GMT</pubDate>
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...  drugs. Last week researchers said a common and sometimes deadly cause of diarrhea, drug-resistant Clostridium difficile, was far more prevalent in US hospitals than previously thought. They said as many  ...
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<title>Study shows antibiotics disrupt gut</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=199127777</link>
<pubDate>19 Nov 2008 00:16 GMT</pubDate>
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...  cure one problem can give rise to another  for instance yeast infections or C. difficile diarrhea. But it&#39;s not clear just how much damage the drugs wreak on the  ...
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<title>This is your stomach on drugs: Study shows antibiotics disrupt gut for months</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=199114364</link>
<pubDate>18 Nov 2008 22:54 GMT</pubDate>
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...  cure one problem can give rise to another - for instance yeast infections or C. difficile diarrhea. But it&#39;s not clear just how much damage the drugs wreak on the  ...
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<title>C. diff now not only in hospitals</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=199113727</link>
<pubDate>18 Nov 2008 22:53 GMT</pubDate>
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...  be in about a third of the meat you buy at the grocery store. Clostridium difficile used to be a benign bacteria that caused easily treated diarrhea. But like MRSA,  ...
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<title>New Drug-Resistant Bug Causes Concern In UK Hospitals</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=199111999</link>
<pubDate>18 Nov 2008 22:28 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Experts said measures in the UK to control MRSA and other &quot;hospital-acquired infections&quot; like Clostridium difficile should also bring down Acinetobacter rates. Acinetobacter shares many of the &quot;superbug&quot; properties of  ...
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