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Outpatient Healthcare Settings and Transmission of Clostridium difficile
BACKGROUND: Recent reports suggest that community-associated Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) (i.e., no healthcare facility admission within 90 days) may be increasing in frequency. We hypothesized that outpatient clinics could be an important source for acquisition of community-associated CDI....
Autores principales: | Jury, Lucy A., Sitzlar, Brett, Kundrapu, Sirisha, Cadnum, Jennifer L., Summers, Kim M., Muganda, Christine P., Deshpande, Abhishek, Sethi, Ajay K., Donskey, Curtis J. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2013
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3722238/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23894609 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0070175 |
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