Clostridium difficile infection (3)

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 373, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 287-

  Sharma, Sam K ^a   Nakajima, Kentaro ^a   Shukla, Parul J ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; COLITIS; COLON RESECTION; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LETTER; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PEPTOCLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTION;

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; HUMANS;

EID: 84937044927     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc1506004     Document Type: Letter

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