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Seungwon Lee1, Priya Prasad2, Matthew Lin3
11Department of Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Control,University of California San Francisco Medical Center,San Francisco,California.
Abstract:
A case-control study was conducted to determine risk factors for hospital-onset Clostridium difficile infection among patients admitted to 2 surgical units. Ertapenem prophylaxis was significantly associated with C. difficile infection risk (odds ratio, 3.13 [95% CI, 1.13-8.68], P=.028) and may offer an antimicrobial stewardship target among surgical patients.
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