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Incidence, case fatality and genotypes causing Clostridium difficile infections, Finland, 2008.
Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases - 1 Jun 2011
Kotila S M, Virolainen A, Snellman M, Ibrahem S, Jalava J, Lyytikäinen O
Abstract excerpt
Since 2000, the epidemiology of C. difficile infections (CDI) has changed in the US and Europe. Few population-based assessments of both incidence and case fatality of CDI have been performed. In this study, the Finnish nationwide laboratory-based surveillance data from the year 2008 were analysed to assess the incidence and case fatality of CDI, and to detect regional differences in relation to molecular...
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