Community-associated Clostridium difficile infection among older people in Tayside, Scotland, is associated with antibiotic exposure and care home residence: cohort study with nested case-control | Zendy

Charis Marwick | Zendy; Ning Yu | Zendy; Michael Lockhart | Zendy; Chris McGuigan | Zendy; Camilla Wiuff | Zendy; Peter Davey | Zendy; Peter T. Donnan | Zendy

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Community-associated Clostridium difficile infection among older people in Tayside, Scotland, is associated with antibiotic exposure and care home residence: cohort study with nested case-control

Author(s) -

Charis Marwick,

Ning Yu,

Michael Lockhart,

Chris McGuigan,

Camilla Wiuff,

Peter Davey,

Peter T. Donnan

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.124

H-Index - 194

eISSN - 1460-2091

pISSN - 0305-7453

DOI - 10.1093/jac/dkt257

Subject(s) - medicine , clostridium difficile , nested case control study , clindamycin , population , hazard ratio , antibiotics , cohort study , cohort , incidence (geometry) , prospective cohort study , confidence interval , environmental health , microbiology and biotechnology , physics , optics , biology

To estimate the risks of community-associated Clostridium difficile infection (CA-CDI) among the population aged ≥ 65 years associated with antibiotic exposure and care home residence.

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