Early Clostridium difficile infection during allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.

Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is frequently diagnosed in recipients of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT). We characterized early-transplant CDI and its associations, and analyzed serially-collected feces to determine intestinal carriage of toxigenic C. difficile....

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Main Authors: Melissa A Kinnebrew, Yeon Joo Lee, Robert R Jenq, Lauren Lipuma, Eric R Littmann, Asia Gobourne, Daniel No, Marcel van den Brink, Eric G Pamer, Ying Taur
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3963842?pdf=render