Outbreak of Clostridium difficile Infections at an Outpatient Hemodialysis Facility-Michigan, 2012-2013

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 972-974

  See, Isaac ^a   Bagchi, Suparna ^a,b   Booth, Stephanie ^c   Scholz, Daniel ^d   Geller, Andrew I ^a   Anderson, Lydia ^a   Moulton Meissner, Heather ^a   Finks, Jennie L ^e   Kelley, Karen ^c   Gould, Carolyn V ^a   Patel, Priti R ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b Kansas Animal Health Department   (United States)

^c Portage Health Dialysis Center   (United States)

^d MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^e MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISINFECTION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; MICHIGAN; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; EPIDEMIC; HEMODIALYSIS; HOSPITALIZATION; INCIDENCE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED; PEPTOCLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; PROCEDURES; RISK FACTOR; STANDARDS;

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BETA LACTAM;

AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BETA-LACTAMS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; MICHIGAN; MIDDLE AGED; OUTPATIENT CLINICS, HOSPITAL; RENAL DIALYSIS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84993940436     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: 15596834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/ice.2015.90     Document Type: Article

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