519. Longer Length of Antibiotic Therapy for Community-Acquired Pneumonia and Risk of Clostridium difficile Infection

BACKGROUND: We previously observed a median 9.5 days length of antibiotic therapy (LOT) among patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) requiring hospitalization (Clin Infect Dis. 2018;66:1333–41). Treatment guidelines for CAP, however, suggest LOT >7 days is rarely necessary. In this stud...

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Pubblicato in:Open Forum Infect Dis
Autori principali: Yi, Sarah H, Reddy, Sujan C, Kazakova, Sophia V, Hatfield, Kelly M, Baggs, James, Guh, Alice Y, Kutty, Preeta K, Hicks, Lauri A, Srinivasan, Arjun, McDonald, L Clifford, Jernigan, John A
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Lingua:Inglês
Pubblicazione: Oxford University Press 2018
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Accesso online:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6255535/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofy210.528
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