Epidemiology and outcome of Clostridium difficile infections in patients hospitalized in Internal Medicine: findings from the nationwide FADOI-PRACTICE study

BACKGROUND: Clostridium difficile (CD) is a leading cause of diarrhoea among hospitalized patients. The objective of this study was to evaluate the rate, the optimal diagnostic work-up, and outcome of CD infections (CDI) in Internal Medicine (IM) wards in Italy. METHODS: PRACTICE is an observational...

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Autores principales: Cioni, Giorgio, Viale, Pierluigi, Frasson, Stefania, Cipollini, Francesco, Menichetti, Francesco, Petrosillo, Nicola, Brunati, Sergio, Spigaglia, Patrizia, Vismara, Chiara, Bielli, Alessandra, Barbanti, Fabrizio, Landini, Giancarlo, Panigada, Grazia, Gussoni, Gualberto, Bonizzoni, Erminio, Gesu, Giovanni Pietro
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/PMC5101712/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27825317
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-016-1961-9

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