April 2016—Treating Clostridium difficile can be dreadfully difficult, even when a clinician doesn’t have to navigate ordering restrictions based on testing frequency. So when Julie A. Ribes, MD, PhD, director of clinical microbiology at UK HealthCare in Lexington, Ky., received a phone call last year from a clinician who asked for repeat C. difficile testing, she was more than sympathetic.
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