Clostridium difficile-associated disease among patients in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 373-376

  Al Tawfiq, Jaffar A ^a   Abed, Mahmoud S ^a  

^a DHAHRAN HEALTH CENTER   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Clostridium difficile; Colitis; Epidemiology; Saudi Arabia

Indexed keywords

CEPHALOSPORIN; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE TOXIN A; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE TOXIN B; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; COMMUNITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAUDI ARABIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CROSS INFECTION; DIARRHEA; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FECES; FEMALE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SAUDI ARABIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78649659210     PISSN: 14778939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2010.10.003     Document Type: Article

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