Epidemic Clostridium difficile [3]

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 354, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1199-1200

  Musher, Daniel M ^a   Logan, Nancy ^a   Mehendiratta, Vaibhav ^b  

^a MICHAEL E DEBAKEY VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ALCOHOL; TOPICAL ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; HUMAN; LETTER; MORTALITY; NORTH AMERICA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT FAILURE; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG EFFECT; EPIDEMIC; HAND WASHING; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; CLASSIFICATION; DIARRHEA; INFECTION CONTROL; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; CANADA; HOSPITALIZATION; INCIDENCE; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; RISK FACTOR;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ETHANOL; HANDWASHING; HUMANS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DIARRHEA; INFECTION CONTROL; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; INCIDENCE; QUEBEC; UNITED STATES; VIRULENCE; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 33644988954     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc053654     Document Type: Letter

References (4)

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