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Clostridium Difficile Tiffany Hoang Health Science Technology 03/03/2016  Clostridium Difficile Clostridium difficile also known as C. diff is a disease caused by a germ which in the United States infected half a million people in 2011, and twenty nine thousand people that died within thirty days. Patients with this disease have symptoms such as watery diarrhea, fever, loss of appetite, nausea, and abdominal pain. Usually, people who are at increased risk for C. diff had gastrointestinal…

Article Review Clostridium difficile is a bacterial organism that can be found in a small percentage of individuals alongside the natural flora of the digestive system; it produces spores, which can live for long periods of time outside of the body and due to their nature are excreted within fecal matter (Kenneley, 2013, pp. 63). According to Irena Kenneley in the article "Clostridium difficile infection is on the rise", C. difficile is increasing in frequency among individual populations…

A urinary tract infection is when one or more parts of the urinary system, for example the kidneys, ureters, bladder, or urethra, becomes infected with a pathogen. The most common infections are the kidney and bladder. The body symptoms affected in this case are; the urinary system. Symptoms of a bladder infection, ( which is in the urinary system) include urinary frequency, urgency, painful urination, pain above the pubic region, WBC’s, and bacteria in urine. Symptoms of a kidney infection,…

Cystic fibrosis is a severe, but rare genetic condition. It usually surfaces at a young age and affects lungs and the digestive system in which mucus builds up. The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation reported roughly 70,000 cases worldwide. Patients with this condition are predisposed to infections by Pseudomonas aeruginosa. This bacteria causes infections in the lungs as it favors conditions with large amounts of mucus, typical for cystic fibrosis patients. The bacteria adapts and grows in this unique…

would eventually save countless numbers of lives (“Discovery” par. 4). Since then, many new antibiotics have been introduced in the market; however, they are misused frequently, thus creating a shortage of effective antibiotics as bacteria develop resistance to overused antibiotics. Many people believe antibiotics…

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has updated its regulations on how antibiotics can and will be given to food-producing animals. The main way that these drugs will be given is by veterinarians for specific animal health issues and is outlined by The Veterinary Feed Directive. Allied Cooperative, Wisconsin’s leading co-op, offers extensive services and supplies including agronomy, grain, auto parts, hardware, convenience stores, and more, and they want you to understand The Veterinary…

In the UK, drug therapy of T2DM shifted from sulphonylureas to metformin (Hamada and Gulliford, 2015). In this case, metformin prescription has largely increased from 55.4% in 2000 to 83.6% in 2013 and sulfonylureas decreased from 64.8% to 41.4% in 2000 and 2013 respectively. In relation to insulin, prescription remained stable with 20-24% of treated patients (Sharma, Nazareth and Petersen, 2016). In other countries, metformin is reported to be the most commonly prescribed drug for patients with…

The cohort study titled “Coffee Consumption and Risk for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus” (1) deals with the question of examining long-term relationship between caffeine consumption and incidents of type 2 diabetes mellitus. This prospective cohort study is significant because prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus has increased in the past decade and this increase is associated with diet and lifestyle factors, among which caffeine consumption occupies one of the central places. Therefore, the…

We all wish it was as simple as dipping in a river seven times a day for seven days. That is what Naaman did in the bile story. Leprosy is not new to this world but doctors have yet to make a vaccine for it. Although people are still suffering from leprosy, it is very curable. Although there is no vaccine for leprosy, however, vaccine again Tb called the BCG vaccine provides some protection from leprosy. Leprosy is cause by Mycobacterium leprae. Mycobacterium leprae is a slow-growing bacterium…

Faecalibacterium prausnitzii (formerly known as Fusobacterium prausnitzii), present in Clostridium cluster IV, is the most abundant bacterium in healthy gut microbiota representing more than 5% of bacterial population[40]. They are widely spread in the gastrointestinal tract of humans and some other species such as pigs, mice and calves and are functionally highly active organisms. F. prausnitzii is an extremely oxygen sensitive(EOS) bacterium and is difficult to cultivate even in anaerobic…