Clostridium difficile infection: A Serbian single-center experience

Journal of Infection in Developing Countries

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 136-140

  Korać, Miloš ^a,b   Milošević, Ivana ^a,b   Marković, Marko ^a   Popović, Nataša ^a   Ilić, Milena ^a   Marković, Aleksandar ^a   Nikolić, Jelena ^a   Jevtović, Djordje ^a,b  

^a CLINICAL CENTER OF SERBIA   (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Clostridium difficile; Diarrhea; Pseudomembranous colitis

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; D DIMER; FIBRINOGEN; IRON; METRONIDAZOLE; VANCOMYCIN;

ABDOMINAL CRAMP; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; COLON BIOPSY; DIARRHEA; DIGESTIVE TRACT ENDOSCOPY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; ILEUS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS COLITIS; RECURRENCE RISK; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TOXIC MEGACOLON; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOMITING; AGE; BIOPSY; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; INCIDENCE; INTESTINE MUCOSA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PEPTOCLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; RECURRENT DISEASE; SERBIA; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SERBIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84923148414     PISSN: 20366590     EISSN: 19722680     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3855/jidc.5060     Document Type: Article

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