Transmission of clostridium difficile during hospitalization for allogeneic stem cell transplant

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 8-15

  Kamboj, Mini ^a,b   Sheahan, Anna ^a   Sun, Janet ^a   Taur, Ying ^a   Robilotti, Elizabeth ^a,b   Babady, Esther ^a   Papanicolaou, Genovefa ^a,b   Jakubowski, Ann ^a,b   Pamer, Eric ^a,b   Sepkowitz, Kent ^a,b  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALLOGENEIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CANCER CENTER; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PEPTOCLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; FECES; GENETICS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HETEROZYGOTE; MICROBIOLOGY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSION;

CARRIER STATE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; FECES; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 85017136024     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: 15596834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/ice.2015.237     Document Type: Article

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