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Epidemiology of Recurrences or Reinfections of Clostridium difficile -Associated Diarrhea
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Approximately 15 to 35% of patients with a first episode of Clostridium difficile -associated diarrhea relapse within 2 months. Between 1994 and 1997, strains from 93 hospitalized patients with C. difficile recurrences were fingerprinted by using both serotyping and PCR-ribotyping. The results showed that 48.4% of clinical recurrences were, in fact, reinfections with a different strain of C. difficile . Rates of clinical recurrences could therefore be reduced by implementing strict isolation precautions.
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- Authors
- Barbut, F., Richard, A., Hamadi, K., Chomette, V., Burghoffer, B., & Petit, J.-C.
- Venue
- Journal of Clinical Microbiology
- Publisher
- American Society for Microbiology
- Published
- 2000-06
- Volume
- 38
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 2386-2388
- ISSN
- 0095-1137 (ISSN-L)
- 1098-660X
- OpenAlex
- W2137961913
- Cited by
- 355
- References
- 26
- FWCI
- 5.95
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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