Fight Superbugs By Being Less Liberal With Antibiotics - Study
Wednesday, September 25, 2013 - 23:50
in Health & Medicine
New methods are needed to fight the infection Clostridium difficile and better use of antibiotics could be key, according to a new paper. Clostridium difficile (C.diff) causes severe diarrhoea, cramps and sometimes life-threatening complications, and has traditionally been thought to be transmitted within hospitals from other sick C.diff patients. In a United Kingdom study, the team mapped all cases of Clostridium difficile (C.diff) in Oxfordshire over a three-year period (2008 to 2011) and found that less than one in five cases of the "hospital superbug" were likely to have been caught from other hospital cases of C.diff, where the focus of infection control measures has been. read more