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Clostridium difficile–Associated Diarrhea

Author(s) -

Stuart Johnson,

Dale N. Gerding

Publication year - 1998

Publication title -

clinical infectious diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44

H-Index - 336

eISSN - 1537-6591

pISSN - 1058-4838

DOI - 10.1086/520276

Subject(s) - medicine , diarrhea , clostridium difficile , confusion , infectious disease (medical specialty) , intensive care medicine , c difficile , pathogenesis , disease , antimicrobial , immunology , microbiology and biotechnology , antibiotics , biology , psychology , psychoanalysis

Clostridium difficile is well recognized as the major, if not the only, important cause of infectious diarrhea that develops in patients after hospitalization in the United States, and likely, in developed countries around the world [1]. The temporal relation between the onset of C. difficile-associated diarrhea (CDAD) and prior or concurrent antimicrobial therapy has caused confusion regarding the pathogenesis of this disease and has led to consideration of this infection as distinct from

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