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Cefoperazone-treated Mouse Model of Clinically-relevant Clostridium difficile Strain R20291
Published on: December 10, 2016
Clostridium difficile infection in outpatients, Maryland and Connecticut, USA, 2002-2007
Jon Mark Hirshon1, Angela D Thompson, Brandi Limbago
1University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. jhirs001@umaryland.edu
Abstract:
Clostridium difficile, the most commonly recognized diarrheagenic pathogen among hospitalized persons, can cause outpatient diarrhea. Of 1,091 outpatients with diarrhea, we found 43 (3.9%) who were positive for C. difficile toxin. Only 7 had no recognized risk factors, and 3 had neither risk factors nor co-infection with another enteric pathogen.
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