Clostridium difficile infection after lung transplantation: Are we really doing everything possible?

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1002-1004

  Dawson, Kyle L ^a   Mooney, Martha L ^b  

^a Houston Methodist ^*  (United States)

^b EASTERN VIRGINIA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CLINDAMYCIN; FIDAXOMICIN; METRONIDAZOLE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIARRHEA; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HAND WASHING; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFECTION CONTROL; INNATE IMMUNITY; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTESTINE FLORA; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; NOTE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK FACTOR; STOMACH ACID; STRESS ULCER; TRANSPLANT SURGEON; TREATMENT FAILURE;

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 84884354609     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: 15573117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2013.07.010     Document Type: Editorial

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