Meeting
Abstract Number: 265
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: There are 400,000 cases and 30,000 deaths from Clostridium difficile (C. diff) infections in the United States annually. Efforts to reduce the transmission of C. diff have focused on patients with diarrhea, however, many patients with C. diff are carriers who do not have symptoms. Because they are not isolated, carriers serve as a […]
Abstract Number: 482
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 29-year-old woman presented with a 4-day history of nausea, vomiting, and watery, non-bloody diarrhea. She also had fever, headache, and dark urine. She had traveled to Puerto Rico one-week prior, where she ate raw fish and vegetables and drank tap water. She also went to visit a waterfall, where she swam in […]