728. Prophylactic Vancomycin Therapy in Long Term Care Patients Colonized with Clostridioides difficile to Reduce Hospital-Acquired C. diff Infection

BACKGROUND: Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) is a common hospital-acquired infection with increasing rates of morbidity and mortality in elderly patients. Per the CDC, there are about 500,000 cases yearly in which 1 out of 11 patients die over the age of 65 due to complications from healthcare-ass...

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Autores principales: Muneer, Sumayya, Sadlak, Monika, Lobo, Gitanjali, Brandt, Dominique, Blatt, Stephen P
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7776413/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofaa439.920

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7776413/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofaa439.920

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