Molecular and clinical characteristics of Clostridium difficile infection in a University Hospital in Shanghai, China

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1606-1608

  Huang, Haihui ^a,b   Wu, Shi ^a   Wang, Minggui ^a   Zhang, Yingyuan ^a   Fang, Hong ^b   Palmgren, Ann Chatrin ^b   Weintraub, Andrej ^b   Nord, Carl Erik ^b  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BERBERINE; METRONIDAZOLE; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHINA; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; DIARRHEA; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE RISK;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CHINA; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; DIARRHEA; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RIBOTYPING;

EID: 56749168862     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/593365     Document Type: Letter

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