Association of Community Factors with Hospital-onset Clostridioides (Clostridium) difficile Infection: A Population Based U.S.-wide Study

Association of Community Factors with Hospital-onset Clostridioides (Clostridium) difficile Infection: A Population Based U.S.-wide Study

Background: Clostridioides (Clostridium) difficile ranks first among the pathogens of hospital-acquired infections with hospital-based preventive strategies being only partially successful in containing its spread. Methods: We performed a spatial statistical analysis to examine the association betwe...

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Main Authors: Ioannis M. Zacharioudakis, Fainareti N. Zervou, Fadi Shehadeh, Evangelia K. Mylona, Eleftherios Mylonakis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-02-01
Series:EClinicalMedicine
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589537019300227

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