A Retrospective Study Analyzing the Appropriateness of Initial Treatment of Clostridium difficile in Patients with Active Malignancy

BACKGROUND: Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is the leading cause of hospital-associated gastrointestinal illness. Previous studies reported that patients with active malignancy are at high risk for CDIs, and yet they are still classified as nonsevere CDI and initially treated with metronidazol...

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Autores principales: Fisher, Aaron, Khanal, Pradeep, Gniado, Ewa, Khaddour, Leila, Orosey, Molly, Hader, Ismail, Yadav, Siddhartha, Halalau, Alexandra
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2018
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5994314/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29991944
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/7192728

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