Word: clostridium
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...Canada - died after using mifepristone together with misoprostol, or misoprostol alone. The two drugs are routinely prescribed in combination; the first terminates the pregnancy, while the second causes uterine contractions and expels it. Most of the women died from infection with a dangerous, rare bacterium called Clostridium sordellii, one of the Clostridium species that may normally live in the vagina of healthy, non-pregnant women. Most also took misoprostol vaginally - many doctors prescribe it that way, though the drug is federally approved to be taken by mouth. But there is no evidence to date that the abortion drugs...
...wouldn't know it to read the papers, but doctors have lately been scrambling to contain a growing epidemiological brushfire, one caused by a nasty little bug almost none of us have heard of but too many of us could encounter soon. The pathogen is known as Clostridium difficile-or C. diff as the scientists call it-a bacterium that used to confine itself to elderly or very ill hospital patients, causing severe diarrhea and nausea. A few doses of antibiotics used to be all it took to knock...
...Trojan horses that can sneak into tumor cells and destroy them from within. "There is a good probability that microbe approaches will be part of the arsenal of the future," says Kenneth Kinzler, a cancer researcher at Johns Hopkins Hospital's Kimmel Cancer Center who is working with the clostridium bacterium. "We're betting...
...need all those microbes if the bad-bug approach turns out to be as successful as early trials suggest. Like AIDS cocktails and cancer chemotherapies, microbe-based therapies may require a multidrug approach. For example, combining the modified clostridium bacterium, which attacks a tumor at its anaerobic core, with the altered measles virus, which destroys the periphery of the tumor, could be a potent new way to fight cancer. Add some radiation or chemotherapy to mop up any lingering cancer cells, and doctors could find themselves closing in on a cure...
...about 100 students and teachers fell ill with various symptoms of vomiting, abdominal cramps and bloody diarrhea; a handful were rushed to the hospital. The culprit? Clostridium perfringens, a bacterium that resides in the intestines of animals but is usually killed when meat is properly prepared. In a report titled "An Uninvited Guest at Turkey Day," state inspectors found that Little Woods' cooks did not monitor the temperature of the turkeys as they cooked. The officials also noted some other uninvited guests: an infestation of cockroaches in the kitchen. "It's bad enough that we have to think about safety...