“Predictors of failure after single faecal microbiota transplantation in patients with recurrent Clostridium difficile infection: results from a three-year cohort study”; methodological issues

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2017, Pages 890-

  Ayubi, E ^a   Safiri, S ^b,c  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b MARAGHEH UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DEPENDENT VARIABLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FECAL MICROBIOTA TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; INDEPENDENT VARIABLE; LETTER; ODDS RATIO; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT INFECTION; TREATMENT FAILURE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; FECES; MICROBIOLOGY; PEPTOCLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; RECURRENT DISEASE;

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; COHORT STUDIES; FECAL MICROBIOTA TRANSPLANTATION; FECES; HUMANS; RECURRENCE;

EID: 85020520823     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmi.2017.04.017     Document Type: Letter

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