Clinical and endoscopic features in patients with hospital-acquired diarrhea associated with Clostridium difficile infection
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Clinical and endoscopic features in patients with hospital-acquired diarrhea associated with Clostridium difficile infection.
INTRODUCTION AND AIMS Clostridium difficile infection is the main cause of hospital-acquired diarrhea, and the clinical and endoscopic findings in those patients have been studied very little in Mexico. The aim of the present study was to describe those findings. MATERIALS AND METHODS A prospective cohort study was conducted that included patients with hospital-acquired diarrhea associated wi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Revista de Gastroenterología de México (English Edition)
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2255-534X
DOI: 10.1016/j.rgmxen.2017.08.002