C Diff Infection – Hypervirulent NAP1 Strain and Fidaxomicin
There are multiple strains of C Diff floating around our hospitals and this one is pretty scary. “This NAP1 strain has a genetic change that results in literally 16 to 23 times more toxin,” says William Jarvis, MD according to an excellent recent College of American Pathologists article [1]. In the same article, L. Clifford […]