M. Alexander Otto

Posts by M. Alexander Otto

Hospitals

Antibiotics, PPIs may fuel community-associated C. difficile

Among patients with community-associated Clostridium difficile infection, more than a third had not used antibiotics in the 12 weeks prior to diagnosis and more than half reported limited or no health care contact over the same period. To assess possible sources of infection, Dr. Amit S. Chitnis and his colleagues at the U.S. Centers for […]