Factors associated with prolonged symptoms and severe disease due to Clostridium difficile

Age and Ageing

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 107-113

  Kyne, Lorraine ^a   Merry, Concepta ^c   O'Connell, Brian ^c   Kelly, Alan ^d   Keane, Conor ^c   O'Neill, Desmond ^b  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b ADELAIDE AND MEATH HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^c ST JAMES S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^d TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Clostridium difficile; Diarrhoea; Elderly; Outbreak pseudomembranous colitis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; METRONIDAZOLE; VANCOMYCIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLITIS; DEHYDRATION; DIARRHEA; DISABILITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOSCOPY; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MENTAL CAPACITY; NOSE FEEDING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; TEACHING HOSPITAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; COLITIS; DIARRHEA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE;

EID: 0032927506     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/28.2.107     Document Type: Article

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