Characterisation of Clostridium difficile Hospital Ward–Based Transmission Using Extensive Epidemiological Data and Molecular Typing

BACKGROUND: Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is a leading cause of antibiotic-associated diarrhoea and is endemic in hospitals, hindering the identification of sources and routes of transmission based on shared time and space alone. This may compromise rational control despite costly prevention...

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Autores principales: Walker, A. Sarah, Eyre, David W., Wyllie, David H., Dingle, Kate E., Harding, Rosalind M., O'Connor, Lily, Griffiths, David, Vaughan, Ali, Finney, John, Wilcox, Mark H., Crook, Derrick W., Peto, Tim E. A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3274560/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22346738
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001172

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3274560/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22346738
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001172

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