Population-based surveillance of Clostridium difficile infection in Manitoba, Canada, by using interim surveillance definitions

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 945-951

  Lambert, Pascal J ^a   Dyck, Myrna ^a,b   Thompson, Laura H ^c   Hammond, Greg W ^b  

^a Manitoba Health   (Canada)

^b Department of Community Health Sciences ^*  (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CANADA; CHILD; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INTERIM SURVEILLANCE CASE DEFINITION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MANITOBA; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70350011973     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/605719     Document Type: Article

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