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Is there a link between clostridium difficile infection and specific blood groups.?
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No: There is no link with c diff and certain blood groups. Clostridium difficile is a bacteria that causes severe diarrhea and other intestinal disease when competing bacteria in the gut flora have been wiped out by antibiotics.
Answered 1/7/2013
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