Clostridium difficile colonization and disease in patients undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplantation

Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1329-1334

  Bruminhent, Jackrapong ^a   Wang, Zi Xuan ^a   Hu, Carol ^a   Wagner, John ^a   Sunday, Richard ^a   Bobik, Brent ^a   Hegarty, Sarah ^a   Keith, Scott ^a   Alpdogan, Seyfettin ^a   Carabasi, Matthew ^a   Filicko O'Hara, Joanne ^a   Flomenberg, Neal ^a   Kasner, Margaret ^a   Outschoorn, Ubaldo Martinez ^a   Weiss, Mark ^a   Flomenberg, Phyllis ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clostridium difficile infection; Colonization; Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE EFFECTS; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PEPTOCLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; RISK FACTOR;

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; TRANSPLANTATION CONDITIONING;

EID: 84905571903     PISSN: 10838791     EISSN: 15236536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2014.04.026     Document Type: Article

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