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Association Between Outpatient Antibiotic Prescribing Practices and Community-Associated Clostridium difficile Infection

Background. Antibiotic use predisposes patients to Clostridium difficile infections (CDI), and approximately 32% of these infections are community-associated (CA) CDI. The population-level impact of antibiotic use on adult CA-CDI rates is not well described. Methods. We used 2011 active population-...

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Autores principales: Dantes, Raymund, Mu, Yi, Hicks, Lauri A., Cohen, Jessica, Bamberg, Wendy, Beldavs, Zintars G., Dumyati, Ghinwa, Farley, Monica M., Holzbauer, Stacy, Meek, James, Phipps, Erin, Wilson, Lucy, Winston, Lisa G., McDonald, L. Clifford, Lessa, Fernanda C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4551478/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26509182
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofv113