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Risk factors for Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhoea in HIV-infected patients

DOI

60

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0

References

1993

Year

Yvan Hutin, Jean‐Michel Molina, I Casin, Véronique Daix, Pierre Sednaoui, Philippe Lagrange, Jean‐Marie Decazes, J Modaï
AIDS

Abstract

Clindamycin use and prolonged hospitalization in the ward were the main risk factors associated with CDAD in this study. These observations, together with the occurrence of one major phenotype of CD, suggest nosocomial transmission of CD in the ward.