Sunday, December 23, 2012

Scent Detecting Dogs Can Sniff Out Hospital Infections

Scent Detecting Dogs Can Sniff Out Hospital Infections: Dogs are now able to sniff out clostridium difficile with significant accuracy in samples of feces as well as the air around patients in the hospital, suggests a new study published in BMJ. Clostridium difficile is an infective component that causes many hospital acquired infections. A detection dog can recognize clostridium difficile in stool, thus identifying sick patients...

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