Clinical practice guidelines for Clostridium difficile infection in adults: 2010 update by the society for healthcare epidemiology of America (SHEA) and the infectious diseases society of America (IDSA).

H Cohen, Stuart; N Gerding, Dale; Johnson, Stuart; P Kelly, Ciaran; G Loo, Vivian; Clifford McDonald, L; Pepin, Jacques; H Wilcox, Mark; for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, Society; Diseases Society of America, Infectious

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Clinical practice guidelines for Clostridium difficile infection in adults: 2010 update by the society for healthcare epidemiology of America (SHEA) and the infectious diseases society of America (IDSA).

Published in Infection control and hospital epidemiology • May 1, 2010

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Stuart H Cohen

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Dale N Gerding

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Stuart Johnson

Abstract

Since publication of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America position paper on Clostridium difficile infection in 1995, significant changes have occurred in the epidemiology and treatment of this infection. C. difficile remains the most important cause of healthcare-associated diarrhea an...

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