Risk of Clostridium difficile infection in hematology-oncology patients colonized with toxigenic C. difficile

The prevalence of colonization with toxigenic Clostridium difficile among patients with hematological malignancies and/or bone marrow transplant at admission to a 566-bed academic medical care center was 9.3%, with 13.3% of colonized patients developing symptomatic disease during hospitalization. Th...

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Published in:Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol
Main Authors: Cannon, Cara, Musuuza, Jackson S., Barker, Anna K., Duster, Megan, Juckett, Mark B., Pop-Vicas, Aurora, Safdar, Nasia
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 2017
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5531265/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28397624
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ice.2017.48
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