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Antimicrobial Stewardship: New Tools for Action

Guest Author – Neil Fishman, M.D. Associate Chief Medical Officer for the University of Pennsylvania Health System, Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. I have noticed more conversations at hospitals, in the community, and even among policy makers about the importance of preserving our antibiotic supply in the setting Read More >

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Clostridium difficile It’s Like Seeing a Train Coming…and You Can’t Get Off of the Tracks

Author – Clifford McDonald MD Prevention and Response Branch Chief CDC’s Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion Looking back now, it is like a movie playing out in my mind. We were at the 2004 IDSA conference in Boston, and my colleagues from the CDC lab, Dr. Dale Gerding’s laboratory, other scientific collaborators, and I were Read More >

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