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Clostridium difficile diarrhoea: a highly infectious organism.

G C Bennett, E Allen, P H Millard.   

Abstract

This paper describes an outbreak of Clostridium difficile diarrhoea in a ward for the elderly in a 550-bedded District General Hospital. The measures taken to contain it and clinical features, previously undescribed, are highlighted.

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Year:  1984        PMID： 6516973     DOI： 10.1093/ageing/13.6.363

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Age Ageing        ISSN： 0002-0729            Impact factor:   10.668


  4 in total

1.  The prevalence and nosocomial acquisition of Clostridium difficile in elderly hospitalized patients.

Authors:  B Rudensky; S Rosner; M Sonnenblick; Y van Dijk; E Shapira; M Isaacsohn
Journal:  Postgrad Med J       Date:  1993-01       Impact factor: 2.401

2.  An epidemic of pseudomembranous colitis: importance of person to person spread.

Authors:  N P Nolan; C P Kelly; J F Humphreys; C Cooney; R O'Connor; T N Walsh; D G Weir; D S O'Briain
Journal:  Gut       Date:  1987-11       Impact factor: 23.059

3.  Survey of incidence of Clostridium difficile infection in Canadian hospitals and diagnostic approaches.

Authors:  M J Alfa; T Du; G Beda
Journal:  J Clin Microbiol       Date:  1998-07       Impact factor: 5.948

Review 4.  Mechanisms of drug-induced diarrhoea in the elderly.

Authors:  R N Ratnaike; T E Jones
Journal:  Drugs Aging       Date:  1998-09       Impact factor: 4.271
  4 in total

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