In the 2003 Canadian Community Health Survey, released in June 2004 and summarized in
CMAJ, 1 about 4.5% of Canadians residing in urban areas and 5.5% of those in rural areas …

Anaerobic bacteria have been of microbiological and clinical interest since Louis Pasteur's
use of the word" anaérobies" to describe his isolation and description of" septic …

Letters to the Editors 389 approach for the detection of toxigenic Clostridium di [jcile strains
compared with existing methods, patient selection may have been critical in obtaining these …

Letters to the Editors 389 approach for the detection of toxigenic Clostridium di [jcile strains
compared with existing methods, patient selection may have been critical in obtaining these …

Purpose: Until recently, most studies on the incidence and prevalence of Clostridium difficile-
associated disease (CDAD) have focused entirely on patients hospitalized in the acute care …

Phase 2: Benchmarks to accountability Quebec strain of C. difficile in 7 provinces Page 1 CMAJ
• February 28, 2006 • 174(5) | 607 News Currently, NB medical students studying in French and …

All bacterial infections are of great concern to society. Some bacterial infections, however,
seem to have periods of high drama or wider public health import. The 100 or so known …

Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) is a spore-forming, gram-positive anaerobic bacillus that
produces two toxins: toxin A and toxin B. These toxins typically cause gastrointestinal …

The laboratory diagnosis of pseudomembranous colitis (PMC) and antibiotic-associated
diarrhea due to Clostridium difficile (CAAD) is more complex than physicians and …

C. difficile is an endospore-forming pathogen, which is becoming a common cause of
microbial health-care associated gastrointestinal disease in the United States. Both healthy …