Community acquired Clostridium difficile infection due to a moxifloxacin susceptible ribotype 027 strain

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 158-159

  Huang, Haihui ^a,b   Weintraub, Andrej ^b   Fang, Hong ^b   Nord, Carl Erik ^b  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; BACTERIAL TOXIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CLINDAMYCIN; HEMOGLOBIN; MEROPENEM; METRONIDAZOLE; MOXIFLOXACIN; PREDNISOLONE; VANCOMYCIN;

AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CASE REPORT; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY CARE; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBOTYPING; TRAVELLER DIARRHEA;

AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; AZA COMPOUNDS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; FEMALE; FLUOROQUINOLONES; HUMANS; QUINOLINES; RIBOTYPING; SWEDEN;

EID: 58449110302     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: 16511980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365540802484836     Document Type: Letter

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