Journal article
Effects of control interventions on Clostridium difficile infection in England: an observational study
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The control of Clostridium difficile infections (CDI) is an international clinical challenge. Uniquely, CDI incidence in England declined by ~80% after 2006, following implementation of national control policies; we investigated their role in this decline. This study tested two hypotheses. First, if CDI declines in England were driven by changes in use of particular antibiotics, then incidence of CDI caused by resistant isolates should decline faster than that caused by suscep...
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Funding
+ National Institute for Health Research
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Grant:
G0800778;HealthProtectionResearchUnitsonHealthcareAssociatedInfection
onModellingMethodology(grantHPRU-2012-10080
AntimicrobialResistance(grantHPRU-2012-10041
Health Innovation Challenge Fund
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Lancet Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Lancet Infectious Diseases Journal website
- Volume:
- 17
- Issue:
- 4
- Pages:
- 411–421
- Publication date:
- 2017-01-24
- Acceptance date:
- 2016-11-14
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1474-4457
- ISSN:
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1473-3099
Item Description
- Pubs id:
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pubs:659522
- UUID:
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uuid:e6a57699-8129-4ba0-a16a-bea0b5ef6202
- Local pid:
- pubs:659522
- Deposit date:
- 2016-11-15
Terms of use
- Copyright holder:
- Dingle et al
- Copyright date:
- 2017
- Notes:
- © 2017 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an Open Access article under the CC BY license. Open access funded by Wellcome Trust.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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