While the earlier infection control teams in the Netherlands and Vancouver saw success with dogs finding patients with C. diff, the journal reports were based only on how a single trained dog ...

A trained dog can detect Clostridium difficile in stool samples and in hospital patients, according to a study in the British Medical Journal. Researchers studied a two-year-old beagle trained to ...

Dec. 13, 2012 -- A 2-year-old beagle named Cliff may hold the key to preventing an infection that kills thousands of Americans each year. Researchers in the Netherlands taught Cliff to sniff out the ...