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Contact: Perry Drake
pdrake@lumc.edu
708-216-7940
Loyola University Health System

Former Patient Thanks Loyola Physicians

Caption: Joan Corboy of Wilmette, Ill., thanks Dr. Stuart Johnson, left, and Dr. Dale Gerding for providing the medical care to overcome a Clostridium difficile (C-diff) infection that caused her to lose 55 pounds in less than six months. Gerding and Johnson co-authored a study that answers how C-diff causes disease in humans.

Credit: Photo by Al Hayashi/Loyola University Health System

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