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Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online It’s difficult to turn down promising options when you have a debilitating or chronic illness. It’s completely daft to turn your nose up at an option for treatment when your life is on the line. Medical science, as it often does, is once again pushing the boundaries of what that layman perceives as a last-ditch treatment option. According to a new paper published in The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) this week, when...
TURKU, Finland, November 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Abacus Diagnostica [http://www.abacusdiagnostica.com ] Ltd announced that it has received the CE mark for the GenomEra [http://www.abacusdiagnostica.com/genomera.html ](TM) C. difficile assay for the detection of toxin-producing Clostridium difficile directly from stool samples. C. difficile [http://www.abacusdiagnostica.com/clostridium.html ] is the leading cause of infectious nosocomial diarrhea in Europe and North America....
MADISON, N.J. and CYPRESS, Calif., April 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Quest Diagnostics (NYSE: DGX), the world's leading provider of diagnostic testing, information and services, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted 510(k) clearance to its Simplexa C. difficile Universal Direct Test on the 3M(TM) Integrated Cycler. The test, from the company's Focus Diagnostics business, is intended to aid in the diagnosis of Clostridium difficile-associated...
Contrary to current convention by which infection with the organism Clostridium difficile is regarded as an infection that is acquired by contact with symptomatic patients known to be infected with C. difficile, these may account for only a minority of new cases of the infection. These findings are important as they indicate that C. difficile infection, which can be fatal especially in older people, may not be effectively controlled by current hospital infection strategies. In a study led...
MADISON, N.J. and CYPRESS, Calif., May 5, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Quest Diagnostics Incorporated (NYSE: DGX), the world's leading provider of diagnostic testing, information and services, today announced the availability in Europe of the Simplexa C. difficile Universal Direct test on the 3M(TM) Integrated Cycler. The new CE marked in vitro diagnostic (IVD) Simplexa test enables fast, high volume lab testing, eliminating the traditional extraction step and allowing for processing of up to 94...
SAN DIEGO, Jan. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- BD Diagnostics, a segment of BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX), announced today it has received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to market the BD GeneOhm(TM) Cdiff molecular assay for the rapid detection of the Toxin B gene found in toxigenic Clostridium difficile, the bacterial pathogen responsible for Clostridium difficile infection (CDI). It is the first CDI molecular diagnostic that offers sensitivity,...
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The New World hookworm (Necator americanus) is a hookworm that can be found in the New World. This species, along with other species in the Nematode phylum, is a parasitic worm that is commonly found in cats, dogs, and humans. Infections from this species are known as Necatoriasis. However, there are two common species of hookworm that infest humans, known as the Old World hookworm (Ancylostoma duodenale) and the New World hookworm, so infections are generally known as hookworm infections....
