Risk factors for mortality in patients with clostridium difficile infection

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 54, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1214-

  Huttunen, Reetta ^a,b   Aittoniemi, Janne ^b,c  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TAMPERE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Finland)

^c PIRKANMAA HOSPITAL DISTRICT   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; COMORBIDITY; DISABILITY; HIP FRACTURE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LETTER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEAKNESS;

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; HUMANS;

EID: 84859077369     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cis019     Document Type: Letter

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