In Reply to Williams

Authors' reply to Mawer and Wilcox and Mullish and Williams.

Mawer and Wilcox point out that newer antibiotics may be superior to vancomycin for treating recurrent Clostridium difficile infection. However, the gulf in efficacy between these treatments and faecal transplantation is so large that transplantation will remain the treatment of choice, especially when it is much cheaper and does not risk further antibiotic related problems and drug resistance....

Reply to “Concerns about Transmission Electron Micrographs in Recent Article by Chen and Williams”

T his Letter to the Editor concerns a recent article published in mBio (1). I am offering my comments on this article in the spirit of the correct interpretation of scientific data. My areas of expertise are in electron microscopy and in prokaryotic predators known as Bdellovibrio and Bdellovibrio-like organisms (BALOs). I have a recent article in the International Journal of Systematic and Evo...

in reply to: fine needle aspiration

The Authors’ Reply

In Reply to Ventres:

Ethical Considerations for Health-Related ServiceLearning Programs To the Editor: I read with interest Saffran’s commentary “Dancing Through Cape Coast: Ethical and Practical Considerations for Health-Related ServiceLearning Programs.” This and several other recent articles give U.S. medical students, clinicians, and educators plenty to digest regarding the ethics of temporary international lea...