- Abstract:
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Symptomatic recurrence of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) occurs in approximately 20% of patients and is challenging to treat. Identifying those at high risk could allow targeted initial management and improve outcomes. Adult toxin enzyme immunoassay-positive CDI cases in a population of approximately 600,000 persons from September 2006 through December 2010 were combined with epidemiological/clinical data. The cumulative incidence of recurrence ≥ 14 days after the diagnosis and/or onse...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher's version
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America Journal website
- Volume:
- 55 Suppl 2
- Issue:
- SUPPL.2
- Pages:
- S77-S87
- Publication date:
- 2012-08-05
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1537-6591
- ISSN:
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1058-4838
- URN:
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uuid:f6db6f60-4140-4e79-97e0-c76d015001d5
- Source identifiers:
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344574
- Local pid:
- pubs:344574
- Language:
- English
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- Copyright holder:
- Eyre et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2012
- Notes:
- Copyright © 2012 Eyre et al. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oup.com. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Predictors of first recurrence of Clostridium difficile infection: implications for initial management.
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