Higher rates of Clostridium difficile infection among smokers.

Higher rates of Clostridium difficile infection among smokers.

Cigarette smoking has been shown to be related to inflammatory bowel disease. We investigated whether smoking affected the probability of developing Clostridium difficile infection (CDI).We conducted a longitudinal study of 16,781 older individuals from the nationally representative Health and Retir...

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Main Authors: Mary A M Rogers, M Todd Greene, Sanjay Saint, Carol E Chenoweth, Preeti N Malani, Itishree Trivedi, David M Aronoff
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3407081?pdf=render

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