Asymptomatic carriers of toxigenic C. difficile in long-term care facilities: A meta-analysis of prevalence and risk factors

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Ziakas, Panayiotis D ^a   Zacharioudakis, Ioannis M ^a   Zervou, Fainareti N ^a   Grigoras, Christos ^a   Pliakos, Elina Eleftheria ^a   Mylonakis, Eleftherios ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC INFECTION; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; EPIDEMIC; FECES INCONTINENCE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NURSING HOME PATIENT; PREVALENCE; SIMULATION; URINE INCONTINENCE; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; FACTUAL DATABASE; HETEROZYGOTE; INFECTION CONTROL; LONG TERM CARE; META ANALYSIS; PEPTOCLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; RISK FACTOR; TRANSMISSION;

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE;

CARRIER STATE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; LONG-TERM CARE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84923768528     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0117195     Document Type: Article

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