Community-associated Clostridium difficile infection: Experience of a veteran affairs medical center in southeastern USA

Infection

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 297-300

  Naggie, S ^a,b   Frederick, J ^b   Pien, B C ^a   Miller, B A ^a   Provenzale, D T ^a,b   Goldberg, K C ^b   Woods, C W ^a,b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DURHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

CDI; Clostridium difficile infection; Colitis; Community associated; Diarrhea

Indexed keywords

PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; COMMUNITY ASSOCIATED CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; COMMUNITY CARE; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEMALE; FEVER; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MORTALITY; ONSET AGE; UNITED STATES; VETERAN;

AGED; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, VETERANS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 77956063978     PISSN: 03008126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s15010-010-0025-0     Document Type: Article

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