Health Care–AssociatedClostridium difficileInfection in Canada: Patient Age and Infecting Strain Type Are Highly Predictive of Severe Outcome and Mortality | Zendy

Mark A. Miller | Zendy; Denise Gravel | Zendy; Michael R. Mulvey | Zendy; Geoffrey Taylor | Zendy; David A. Boyd | Zendy; Andrew E. Simor | Zendy; Michael Gardam | Zendy; Allison McGeer | Zendy; James Hutchinson | Zendy; Dorothy Moore | Zendy; Sharon Kelly | Zendy

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Health Care–AssociatedClostridium difficileInfection in Canada: Patient Age and Infecting Strain Type Are Highly Predictive of Severe Outcome and Mortality

Author(s) -

Mark A. Miller,

Denise Gravel,

Michael R. Mulvey,

Geoffrey Taylor,

David A. Boyd,

Andrew E. Simor,

Michael Gardam,

Allison McGeer,

James Hutchinson,

Dorothy Moore,

Sharon Kelly

Publication year - 2009

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 - 10.1086/649213

Subject(s) - medicine , clostridium difficile , intensive care unit , incidence (geometry) , population , colectomy , infection control , strain (injury) , pediatrics , disease , intensive care medicine , microbiology and biotechnology , antibiotics , physics , environmental health , optics , ulcerative colitis , biology

C. difficile infection (CDI) has become an important and frequent nosocomial infection, often resulting in severe morbidity or death. Severe CDI is more frequently seen among individuals infected with the emerging NAP1/027/BI (NAP1) strain and in the elderly population, but the relative importance of these 2 factors remains unclear. We used a large Canadian database of patients with CDI to explore the interaction between these 2 variables.

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