Journal article
Relationship between bacterial strain type, host biomarkers, and mortality in Clostridium difficile infection.
- Abstract:
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Background. Despite substantial interest in biomarkers, their impact on clinical outcomes and variation with bacterial strain has rarely been explored using integrated databases.
Methods. From September 2006 to May 2011, strains isolated from Clostridium difficile toxin enzyme immunoassay (EIA)–positive fecal samples from Oxfordshire, United Kingdom (approximately 600 000 people) underwent multilocus sequence typing. Fourteen-day mortality ...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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National Institute for Health Research
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Medical Research Council
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America Journal website
- Volume:
- 56
- Issue:
- 11
- Pages:
- 1589-1600
- Publication date:
- 2013-06-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1537-6591
- ISSN:
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1058-4838
- Source identifiers:
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387779
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- Language:
- English
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- Local pid:
- pubs:387779
- Deposit date:
- 2013-11-16
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- Copyright holder:
- Walker et al
- Copyright date:
- 2013
- Notes:
- Copyright © 2009 Walker et al. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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