• Question: Have you discovered any diseases so far?

    Asked by simplytxo to Sadaf, Katie, Kat, Andrew on 24 Jun 2013.
    • Photo: Andrew Swale

      Andrew Swale answered on 24 Jun 2013:


      My work does not involving looking for new diseases, but in fact focuses on a specific disease: Clostridium difficile infection (CDI)

      Clostridium difficile is a hospital superbug that infects patient causing severe diarrhoea

      My work focuses on discovering markers in patients’ blood and faeces that might help improve treatment or management of the disease in the future

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