High prevalence of Clostridium difficile colonization among nursing home residents in Hesse, Germany

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Arvand, Mardjan ^a   Moser, Vera ^a   Schwehn, Christine ^a   Bettge Weller, Gudrun ^a   Hensgens, Marjolein P ^b   Kuijper, Ed J ^b  

^a Centre for Health Protection   (Germany)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE TOXIN A; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE TOXIN B;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHRONIC WOUND; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMENTIA; DIARRHEA; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GERMANY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; NURSING HOME PATIENT; PERCUTANEOUS ESOPHAGEAL GASTROTOMY FEEDING TUBE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; RIBOTYPING; RISK FACTOR; TUBE FEEDING; URINE INCONTINENCE; BACTERIAL COUNT; DEMOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING HOME; PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS COLITIS; STATISTICS;

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DEMOGRAPHY; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING HOMES; PREVALENCE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 84855713138     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0030183     Document Type: Article

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