Looking For Weaknesses In Difficult Difficile - Cdiff Genome Highlights The Many Weapons Of This Most Awkward Pathogen

... The emergence of 'superbugs' - bacteria resistant to several antibiotics - is a major problem facing health-care providers worldwide. Today, a team of scientists led by the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute detail the genome of the multiply-antibiotic-resistant Clostridium difficile(Cdiff) in a report in Nature Genetics. [click link for full article] ...