Renal Failure and Leukocytosis Are Predictors of a Complicated Course of Clostridium difficile Infection if Measured on Day of Diagnosis

Nonsevere Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) and severe CDI, which carries a higher risk than nonsevere CDI for treatment failure and CDI recurrence, are difficult to distinguish at the time of diagnosis. To investigate the prognostic value of 3 markers of severe CDI suggested by recent guideline...

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Main Authors: Bauer, Martijn P., Hensgens, Marjolein P. M., Miller, Mark A., Gerding, Dale N., Wilcox, Mark H., Dale, Adam P., Fawley, Warren N., Kuijper, Ed J., Gorbach, Sherwood L.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Oxford University Press 2012
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3388022/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22752864
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cid/cis340
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