Clostridium difficile

Clostridium difficile It’s Like Seeing a Train Coming…and You Can’t Get Off of the Tracks

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Author – Clifford McDonald MD Prevention and Response Branch Chief CDC’s Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion Looking back now, it is like a movie playing out in my mind. We were at the 2004 IDSA conference in Boston, and my colleagues from the…

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Using fecal transplants to treat recurrent Clostridium difficile infections (CDI)

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Author – Clifford McDonald MD Prevention and Response Branch Chief CDC’s Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion Transplanting feces from one human to another may sound repulsive, but for patients suffering from recurrent, debilitating diarrhea ca…

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