Preoperative oral antibiotics in colorectal surgery increase the rate of Clostridium difficile colitis

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 140, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 752-756

  Wren, Sherry M ^a,b   Ahmed, Natasha ^a   Jamal, Ayesha ^a   Safadi, Bassem Y ^a,b   Welton, Mark L ^c   Baker, J Dennis ^c   Weaver, Fred A ^c  

^a VA PALO ALTO HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c G112 PAVAHCS ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEPHALOSPORIN; CLINDAMYCIN; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE TOXIN A; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE TOXIN B; ERYTHROMYCIN; LAXATIVE; METRONIDAZOLE; NEOMYCIN; PENICILLIN G; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; COLITIS; COLORECTAL SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FECES; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION; INTESTINE PREPARATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; COLORECTAL SURGERY; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; ERYTHROMYCIN; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOMYCIN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROBABILITY; REFERENCE VALUES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 23844453165     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.140.8.752     Document Type: Article

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