Risk Factors of Patients With Diarrhea for Having Clostridioides (Clostridium) difficile Infection

Risk Factors of Patients With Diarrhea for Having Clostridioides (Clostridium) difficile Infection

Nosocomial infections with Clostridioides (Clostridium) difficile have become an emergent health threat. We sought to define risk factors for a C. difficile infection (CDI) beyond the widely known ones, such as antibiotic use and prior hospital stay. We therefore focused on a group of patients with...

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Main Authors: Vanessa Lang, Katrin Gunka, Jan Rudolf Ortlepp, Ortrud Zimmermann, Uwe Groß
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
Subjects:
Clostridioides difficile
Clostridium difficile
risk factor
proton pump inhibitor
nosocomial infection
antibiotic
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2022.840846/full

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