The Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics
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ISSUE 1247
ISSUE 1247
November 6, 2006
Issue 1247
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Treatment of Clostridium difficile-Associated Disease (CDAD)
November 6, 2006 (Issue: 1247)
The gram-positive anaerobic bacillus Clostridium difficile is the most common identifiable cause of antibiotic-associated diarrhea. The antibiotics most often implicated have been ampicillin, second and third generation cephalosporins, clindamycin...more
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