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C. difficile infection not neccesarily related to antibiotics.

October 13, 2008

Analysis of:C. Difficile And Antibiotics Not Necessarily Linked, Study Finds | www.sciencedaily.com

The key point in this article is that the author shows a connection between Community Acquired clostridium difficile infections & lack of antimicrobial use. For example, the widespread use of ant-acids ie; proton pump inhibitors. This article is helpful because delineating some of the risk factors may help curb this deadly disease. However, make no mistake there is a very clear link between hospital or nosocomial transmission & antibiotic use. All patients with diarrhea requiring hospital admission (especially with a profoundly elevated white blood cell count) should be tested for C. difficile.

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