Severe Clostridium difficile infection: Incidence and risk factors at a tertiary care university hospital in Vienna, Austria

Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift

Volumn 126, Issue 13-14, 2014, Pages 427-430

  Starzengruber, Peter ^a,b   Segagni Lusignani, Luigi ^a   Wrba, Thomas ^b   Mitteregger, Dieter ^b   Indra, Alexander ^c   Graninger, Wolfgang ^b   Presterl, Elisabeth ^a   Diab Elschahawi, Magda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c AUSTRIAN AGENCY FOR HEALTH AND FOOD SAFETY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Clostridium difficile infection; Incidence; Risk factors; Severe case; Tertiary care hospital

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RIBOTYPING; RISK FACTOR; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; CLASSIFICATION; CROSS INFECTION; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; MIDDLE AGED; PEPTOCLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; PROGNOSIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSION;

AGED; AUSTRIA; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CROSS INFECTION; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; SPACE-TIME CLUSTERING; TERTIARY CARE CENTERS;

EID: 84904985951     PISSN: 00435325     EISSN: 16137671     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00508-014-0549-x     Document Type: Article

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