Epidemiology of severe clostridium difficile infections in Hesse, Germany in 2008-2009;Schwer verlaufende clostridium-difficile-infektionen in Hessen 2008-2009

Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift

Volumn 135, Issue 40, 2010, Pages 1963-1967

  Arvand, M ^a   Hauri, A M ^a   Zaiss N H ^b   Witte, W ^b   Bettge Weller, G ^a  

^a Hessisches Landesprüfungs und Untersuchungsamt im Gesundheitswesen   (Germany)

^b ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Clostridium difficile; Clostridium difficile associated diarrhoe; Clostridium difficile infection; molecular epidemiology; ribotype

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; GERMANY; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; MORBIDITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RIBOTYPING; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; FEMALE; GENETICS; HEALTH SURVEY; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOGENICITY; PEPTOCLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; VERY ELDERLY; VIRULENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE NOTIFICATION; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RIBOTYPING; VIRULENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77957843966     PISSN: 00120472     EISSN: 14394413     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0030-1263342     Document Type: Article

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