Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea: Epidemiology, risk factors, and infection control

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 628-632

  Lai, Kwan Kew ^a   Melvin, Zita S ^a   Menard, Mary Jane ^a   Kotilainen, Helen R ^a   Baker, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CROSS INFECTION; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; HAND WASHING; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; RISK; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; TEACHING HOSPITAL; UNITED STATES;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; HANDWASHING; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; RISK FACTORS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; UNIVERSAL PRECAUTIONS;

EID: 0031229637     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/30141489     Document Type: Article

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