May 15th 2024
Dennis Petragnani has battled gastrointestinal issues for years, and he shares what he sees as the transformation of change in the public and medical community talking about C diff and therapies around it, and the kinship with people he has met through the Peggy Lillis Foundation.
Higher Antibiotic Use & C. diff Rates Found After Sepsis Program Implementation
October 10th 2017A recent study found that a sepsis care bundle program implemented in The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York coincided with an increase in antibiotic prescriptions and higher rates of Clostridium difficile infections.
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Top 5 Contagion® News Articles Month of August 2017
September 6th 2017Potentially defective personal protection equipment, patients’ involvement in hand hygiene, probiotics that work against C. difficile, what makes delafloxacin unique, and a new discovery against the herpes virus make up the Top 5 articles for the month of August 2017.
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Top 5 Contagion® News Articles for the Week of August 20, 2017
August 26th 2017Proton pumps inhibitors present risks for individuals living with HIV, dalbavancin can treat MRSA-related pneumonia, probiotics prove deadly against C. difficile, patient involvement increases healthcare practitioners’ hand hygiene, and why delafloxacin is a unique antibiotic for skin infections are the topics that make up this week’s Top 5 articles.
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