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Global Epidemiology of Clostridium difficile Infection in 2010

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Dale N. Gerding
Dale N. Gerding*
Affiliation:
Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital, Hines and Loyola University Chicago Stritch, School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois
*
Research Service (151), Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital, Building 1, Room C344, Hines, IL 60611 (dale.gerding2@va.gov)
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Abstract

The past decade has been characterized by an epidemic of Clostridium difficile infection in North America and Europe that threatens to extend to the rest of the world. The epidemic is due in part to the emergence of a previously rare and now more lethal C. difficile strain variously named group BI, ribotype 027, and North American pulsed-field gel electrophoresis type 1.

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Supplement Article
Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 31 , Issue S1: Papers from the Fifth Decennial International Conference on Healthcare-Associated Infections , November 2010 , pp. S32 - S34
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2010

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