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Impact of Clostridium difficile infection : clinical and economic perspectives

2017-01-01

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Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is one of the most common causes of infective hospital-acquired diarrhoea and one of the leading causes of healthcare-associated infection (HCAI) worldwide. The emergence of hypervirulent strains has caused outbreaks in several countries, and the disease has been a challenge to healthcare workers, settings and systems mainly related to the disease heterogeneity, high rates of...

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Literature Corpus work: a3375b96-f335-5a62-abbc-2c66f15946f6
DOI: 10.17638/03019263

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