366 Does the Emergency Department Recognize and Isolate Obvious Clostridium Difficile Diarrhea?
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منابع مشابه
Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea.
At our hospital, the number of cases of Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhoea increased from 29 in 1993 to 210 in 1995. The case notes of 110 patients with C difficile-associated diarrhoea during the first 6 months of 1995 were analysed retrospectively. The majority of the patients (106) had received antibiotics before the onset of diarrhoea; 46 had received three or more different antibio...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Annals of Emergency Medicine
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0196-0644
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2015.07.402