Clostridium difficile colitis: Increasing incidence, risk factors, and outcomes in solid organ transplant recipients

Transplantation

Volumn 93, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1051-1057

  Boutros, Marylise ^a   Al Shaibi, Maha ^a   Chan, Gabriel ^a   Cantarovich, Marcelo ^a   Rahme, Elham ^b   Paraskevas, Steven ^a   Deschenes, Marc ^a   Ghali, Peter ^a   Wong, Philip ^a   Fernandez, Myriam ^a   Giannetti, Nadia ^a   Cecere, Renzo ^a   Hassanain, Mazen ^a   Chaudhury, Prosanto ^a   Metrakos, Peter ^a   Tchervenkov, Jean ^a   Barkun, Jeffrey S ^a,c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

C. difficile colitis; Colectomy; Diarrhea; Solid organ transplant

Indexed keywords

THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; COLON RESECTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RISK; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PANCOLITIS; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOLID ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; COLITIS; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84861099987     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TP.0b013e31824d34de     Document Type: Article

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