Longitudinal survey of Clostridium difficile presence and gut microbiota composition in a Belgian nursing home

BACKGROUND: Increasing age, several co-morbidities, environmental contamination, antibiotic exposure and other intestinal perturbations appear to be the greatest risk factors for C. difficile infection (CDI). Therefore, elderly care home residents are considered particularly vulnerable to the infect...

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Autores principales: Rodriguez, Cristina, Taminiau, Bernard, Korsak, Nicolas, Avesani, Véronique, Van Broeck, Johan, Brach, Philippe, Delmée, Michel, Daube, Georges
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5045619/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27716140
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12866-016-0848-7

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5045619/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27716140
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12866-016-0848-7

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