Burden of clostridium difficile infection in Long-term care facilities in Monroe County, New York

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1107-1112

  Pawar, Deepa ^a   Tsay, Rebecca ^a   Nelson, Deborah S ^a   Elumalai, Meena Kumari ^a   Lessa, Fernanda C ^b   Clifford McDonald, L ^b   Dumyati, Ghinwa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; FECES CULTURE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; RECURRENCE RISK;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONG-TERM CARE; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SKILLED NURSING FACILITIES;

EID: 84867484557     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/668031     Document Type: Article

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