Open AccessClinical and demographic profile and risk factors for Clostridium difficile infection
Author(s) -
Carlos Carvajal Carvajal,
Carlos Pacheco,
Fabián Jaimes
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
biomédica/biomedica
Language(s) - Spanish
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.26
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 2590-7379
pISSN - 0120-4157
DOI - 10.7705/biomedica.v37i1.2915
Subject(s) - clostridium difficile , medicine , microbiology and biotechnology , biology , antibiotics
Clostridium difficile infection is the leading cause of nosocomial infectious diarrhea. The increasing incidence added to a lower rate of response to the initial treatment and higher rates of relapse has generated a higher burden of the disease.