Hospital-based epidemiology: A strategy for 'dealing with Clostridium difficile'

Journal of Hospital Infection

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 319-325

  Shears, P ^a   Prtak, L ^a   Duckworth, R ^a  

^a ROYAL HALLAMSHIRE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antibiotic associated diarrhoea; Clostridium difficile; Epidemiology; Hospital acquired infection

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; DEATH CERTIFICATE; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; INTENSIVE CARE; MALE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TEACHING HOSPITAL; UNITED KINGDOM; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTION; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; CROSS INFECTION; DIARRHEA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTOR;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 77952569377     PISSN: 01956701     EISSN: 15322939     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhin.2009.07.009     Document Type: Article

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