Epidemiology and outcome of Clostridium difficile infection and diarrhea in HIV infected inpatients

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Clostridium difficile causes diarrhea in HIV infected patients but reports of prevalence, risk factors, and outcome vary. We studied the impact of C. difficile in 161 HIV infected inpatients admitted to Cook County Hospital. Patients with C. difficile had more hospital admissions in the previous 6 m …
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Authors Pulvirenti JJ;Mehra T;Hafiz I;DeMarais P;Marsh D;Kocka F;Meyer PM;Fischer SA;Goodman L;Gerding DN;Weinstein RA;;
Journal Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease
Year 2002
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12543536
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National Center for Biotechnology Information NCBI NLM MEDLINE humans pubmed abstract nih national institutes of health national library of medicine research support non-u.s. gov't adult female male adolescent middle aged risk factors hiv infections / complications* aids-related opportunistic infections / microbiology diarrhea / epidemiology* enterocolitis pseudomembranous / epidemiology* clostridium difficile / physiology* diarrhea / complications* pmid:12543536 doi:10.1016/s0732-8893(02)00462-5 joseph j pulvirenti tarun mehra robert a weinstein aids-related opportunistic infections / epidemiology* pseudomembranous / complications* pseudomembranous / diagnosis hiv infections / microbiology

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