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Warpy

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2. The wost outbreak I ever saw was in an ICU

Reply to xchrom (Original post)

Mon Dec 10, 2012, 04:29 PM

Dec 2012

and was finally traced to the body of the electronic thermometer, something that was never in contact with a patient. Oddly enough, the electric blood pressure machine came up clean.

C-diff is really nasty but the cure for drug resistant C-diff is even nastier, it's a shit/bacteria enema, the shit donated by a healthy person.

I could diagnose C-diff on the floor before I got off the elevator. That's how nasty it is.

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C. diff spread 'fast and easy' [View all] xchrom Dec 2012 OP

Drug-resistant C difficile bug traced to source in US and Canadian hospitals xchrom Dec 2012 #1

The wost outbreak I ever saw was in an ICU Warpy Dec 2012 #2