Higher Rates of Clostridium difficile Infection among Smokers

OBJECTIVES: Cigarette smoking has been shown to be related to inflammatory bowel disease. We investigated whether smoking affected the probability of developing Clostridium difficile infection (CDI). METHODS: We conducted a longitudinal study of 16,781 older individuals from the nationally represent...

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Autores principales: Rogers, Mary A. M., Greene, M. Todd, Saint, Sanjay, Chenoweth, Carol E., Malani, Preeti N., Trivedi, Itishree, Aronoff, David M.
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/PMC3407081/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22848714
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0042091

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3407081/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22848714
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0042091

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