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Chapter 28 - Clostridium Difficile Infection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 July 2018

By
Charles Hartis  and
Nicole Abolins
Edited by
Rachel L. Chin ,
Bradley W. Frazee  and
Zlatan Coralic
Rachel L. Chin
Affiliation:
University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine
Bradley W. Frazee
Affiliation:
University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine
Zlatan Coralic
Affiliation:
University of California, San Francisco
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Emergency Management of Infectious Diseases , pp. 188 - 191
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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Shin, B. M., Moon, S. J., Kim, Y. S., et al. Characterization of cases of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) presenting at an emergency room: molecular and clinical features differentiate community-onset hospital-associated and community-associated CDI in a tertiary care hospital. J. Clin. Microbiol. 2011; 49(6): 2161–5, doi: 10.1128/JCM.02330-10.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed

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Bakken, J. S., Borody, T., Brandt, L. J., et al. Treating Clostridium difficile infection with fecal microbiota transplantation. Clin. Gastroenterol. Hepatol. 2011; 9(12): 1044–9.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Shin, B. M., Moon, S. J., Kim, Y. S., et al. Characterization of cases of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) presenting at an emergency room: molecular and clinical features differentiate community-onset hospital-associated and community-associated CDI in a tertiary care hospital. J. Clin. Microbiol. 2011; 49(6): 2161–5, doi: 10.1128/JCM.02330-10.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed

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