Saving kids from dangerous infections -- with an amoeba (IMAGE)

University of Virginia Health System

Saving kids from dangerous infections -- with an amoeba

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The Hartwell Foundation will provide University of Virginia School of Medicine researcher Shannon Moonah, MD, with $100,000 each year for three years to support his efforts to use an amoeba to deliver antibodies to prevent and treat potentially deadly C. difficile infections in young children.

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Dan Addison | UVA Communications

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