Confirmed cases and report of clusters of severe infections due to Clostridium difficile PCR ribotype 027 in Germany
Autor: | E Kuehnen, H P Weil, H Michels, Niels Kleinkauf, B Bornhofen, Bettina Weiss, Tim Eckmanns, Andreas Jansen |
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Rok vydání: | 2007 |
Předmět: |
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medicine.medical_specialty macromolecular substances Disease Polymerase Chain Reaction Ribotyping Risk Assessment Disease Outbreaks Clostridium Risk Factors Germany Internal medicine medicine Cluster Analysis Humans Disease Notification Enterocolitis Pseudomembranous Aged biology Clostridioides difficile business.industry Incidence Clostridium difficile biology.organism_classification Surgery Population Surveillance Female Severe course business |
Zdroj: | Weekly releases (1997–2007). 12 |
ISSN: | 9999-1233 |
DOI: | 10.2807/esw.12.46.03307-en |
Popis: | In late September 2007, the local health authorities in Trier, Rhineland-Palatine, in south-western Germany, were informed of four cases with a severe course of Clostridium difficile-associated disease (CDAD) on several wards in a local hospital. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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