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September 20, 2018Clinical Infectious DiseasesOpen Access

Oral Vancomycin Prophylaxis Is Highly Effective in Preventing Clostridium difficile Infection in Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplant Recipients

Alex Ganetsky Jennifer Han Mitchell E. Hughes Daria V. Babushok Noelle V. Frey Saar Gill Elizabeth O. Hexner Alison W. Loren Selina M. Luger James K. Mangan Mary Ellen Martin Jessica C. Smith Craig W. Freyer Cheryl Gilmar Mindy G. Schuster Edward A. Stadtmauer David Porter

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Prophylaxis with oral vancomycin is highly effective in preventing CDI in alloHCT recipients without increasing the risk of graft-versus-host disease or disease relapse. Further evaluation via a prospective study is warranted.

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