Clostridium difficile infection in hospitalized patients with cystic fibrosis

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1547-1548

  Pant, Chaitanya ^a   Sferra, Thomas J ^b   Deshpande, Abhishek ^c   Olyaee, Mojtaba ^a   Gilroy, Richard ^a   Anderson, Michael P ^d   Donskey, Curtis ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^e CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f LOUIS STOKES CLEVELAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; COLON RESECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; ICD-9-CM; INCIDENCE; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; NOTE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; COMPLICATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EARLY INTERVENTION; FEMALE; INFECTION CONTROL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; PEPTOCLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EARLY MEDICAL INTERVENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84911912853     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: 15596834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/678607     Document Type: Note

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