LOS ANGELES, April 16, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Universal Detection Technology (www.udetection.com) (OTCBB:UNDT), a developer of early-warning monitoring technologies to protect people from bioterrorism and other infectious health threats and provider of counter-terrorism consulting and training services, reported today that its BSM-2000, airborne bacterial spore monitor is capable of detecting the deadly superbug, Clostridium difficile (C. difficile). Reports indicate that C. difficile is responsible for 15,000 to 20,000 deaths per year.