Difficile Infection Quotes & Sayings

Once C. diff leaves the colon of the infected patient in a liquid stool, it usually converts to a spore that is like a seed that lies dormant in the hospital until it gets picked up by a suitable human host. Once swallowed, C. diff germinates (hatches) in the bowel and starts a new cycle of infection. — J. Thomas LaMont

Many people infected with C. diff are sick with diarrhea, abdominal pain, nausea, and weight loss. Others are "carriers" of C. diff with no signs or symptoms of disease. Some of these carriers have been recently infected with C. diff but have recovered and now feel well. But carriers still have the C. diff organism in their stools and can serve as a silent reservoir of infection in hospitals and nursing homes. — J. Thomas LaMont

How could I compete with a debtless man? — John Steinbeck

Experience shows that what happens is always the thing against which one has not made provision in advance. — John Maynard Keynes

I cancel going out if my hair doesn't look good. — Brad Goreski

The idea behind a stool transplant is to "reseed the lawn," so to speak. After exposure to weeks or months of antibiotics (including Vanco) the normal bowel flora - the organisms in your colon that help prevent infection - is weakened. They simply can't keep C. diff out. In other words, the normal barrier function of the colonic flora is gone, and C. diff gets right back in. So putting in some normal flora from a healthy donor is like reseeding the lawn - it restores the barrier. When that happens, C. diff cannot get back in, and the infection is cured. — J. Thomas LaMont

When you are the only
passenger if there is a
place further from me
I beg you do not go — Frank O'Hara

many a medal awarded in any war represents just the shade of difference which separates a commendation from a court martial. — Charles Lockwood

Capitalism is a system for determining objective value. — Matt Taibbi

If I could get a deal on whatever my impulse was, whenever my impulse struck, and it was nearby, I would use that all the time. It would reshape the way that I shop. — Andrew Mason

Ah yes, jobs. Once upon a time, souls were traded for immortality or riches. Now we are bought and sold with the promise of jobs. The human spirit is devalued currency. How the devil must be laughing. — Jamie Delano

Men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the causes by which they are determined. — Baruch Spinoza

His aim had been perfect. And perhaps if she hadn't kissed his cheek right before the jump, his balance would have been too. — Marissa Meyer