Showing posts with label C. Diff. Show all posts
Showing posts with label C. Diff. Show all posts
Sunday, February 23, 2014

Referral: Mckenna On The Regulatory Limbo Of Fecal Transplants

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C. difficile – Credit CDC PHIL   # 8324   Roughly 44 years ago Dr. William Nolan wrote a book called ` The Making of A Surgeon’ ,...
Thursday, January 17, 2013

NEJM: Effectiveness Of Fecal Transplants For C. diff

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  C. difficile – Credit CDC PHIL   UPDATE:   Just as I posted this blog, Maryn McKenna posted her take on this study, which you...
Thursday, January 10, 2013

Unnecessary Antibiotic Use & C. Difficile Infections

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C. difficile – Credit CDC PHIL   # 6842   We’ve more evidence today on the perils of unnecessary antibiotic usage from a stu...
Thursday, October 11, 2012

The Flight Of The Bacterial Intruder

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Credit CDC PHIL     # 6625   HCAIs ( Health care associated Infections ) or HAIs ( Hospital acquired infections ) constitute ...
Friday, December 09, 2011

Referral: Maryn McKenna On Regulatory Obstacles To Fecal Transplants

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      # 5999   Maryn has a fascinating article this morning on her Superbug Blog on the regulatory obstacles that are hindering w...
Wednesday, August 10, 2011

CMAJ: Hand Sanitizers May Be `Suboptimal’ For Preventing Norovirus

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    Photo Credit – CDC   # 5747   While dispensers of alcohol-based hand sanitizers have become ubiquitous in many health ca...
Tuesday, July 26, 2011

IDSA: Educational Guidelines Lower Antibiotic Use

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      Photo Credit – CDC   # 5715   From the IDSA ( Infectious Diseases Society of America ) today, a major report on the ...
Wednesday, April 20, 2011

The Other Reason Not To Abuse Antibiotics

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      # 5506     We hear a lot about the dangers of overusing, or misusing antibiotics; primarily concerns over the rise of a...
Wednesday, October 06, 2010

Referral: McKenna On C. Diff

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    # 4963     While I’ve been immersed in writing two earlier blogs this morning, our favorite ` scary disease girl’ Maryn McKenn...