Hospital patients look set to be better protected from the dangerous infection Clostridium Difficile, thanks to work by researchers at Exeter University and the RD&E NHS Trust.
They've have developed a unique four-part clinical test for identifying the patients most at risk, so that they can be given preventative treatment.
The research team came up with the test after analysing more than 200 patients who'd developed the infection at the RD&E hospital.
C-Diff, as it's often known, was connected to over one in a hundred of all deaths in England and Wales between 2006 and 2010.
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