Nosocomial diarrhea in the intensive care unit

We made an epidemiological case-control study to examine risk factors for the development of diarrhea in the intensive care unit (ICU) of a public hospital in Santo André, SP, from January to October 2002. Forty-nine patients with diarrhea (cases) and 49 patients without diarrhea (controls), matched...

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Main Authors: Ana Paula Marcon, Mônica Antar Gamba, Lucila Amaral Carneiro Vianna
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier
Series:Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702006000600005&lng=en&tlng=en