Body’s diarrhea defense
The body has a biological mechanism tailor-made to fend off infections by Clostridium difficile, a bacterium responsible for many hospital-acquired diarrheal infections. Reporting online August 21 in Nature Medicine, researchers at Case Western Reserve University and colleagues from other institutions show that a compound called S-nitrosoglutathione can bind to toxins secreted by the microbe and neutralize them before they damage cells.
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