If you have recently been in a hospital or around someone who has finished a round of antibiotics, you may have heard about clostridium difficile (C. diff). It is an organism that routinely resides in the human gut, in the soil, water, and the...
The hay day of penicillin as the cure-all for everything is gone. In fact, penicillin is not effective for the treatment of many bacterial infections today. The reason being is those like other organisms, bacteria have changes in their structure...