Seasonality of Clostridium difficile infections in Southern Germany

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 140, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1787-1793

  Reil, M ^a   Hensgens, M P M ^b   Kuijper, E J ^b   Jakobiak, T ^a   Gruber, H ^a   Kist, M ^c   Borgmann, S ^a,d  

^a SYNLAB ACADEMY   (Germany)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^d KLINIKUM INGOLSTADT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; Clostridium difficile; typing

Indexed keywords

CIPROFLOXACIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; MOXIFLOXACIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; FECES ANALYSIS; GERMANY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTIOUS DIARRHEA; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MIXED INFECTION; NONHUMAN; NOROVIRUS; NOROVIRUS INFECTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RURAL AREA; SEASONAL VARIATION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; AZA COMPOUNDS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENOTYPE; GERMANY; HUMANS; QUINOLINES; RIBOTYPING; SEASONS;

EID: 84865521812     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268811002627     Document Type: Article

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