Global and Historical Distribution of Clostridioides difficile in the Human Diet (1981–2019): Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of 21886 Samples Reveal Sources of Heterogeneity, High-Risk Foods, and Unexpected Higher Prevalence Toward the Tropic

Rodriguez‐Palacios, Alexander; Mo, Kevin; U. Shah, Bhavan; Msuya, Joan; Bijedić, Nina; Deshpande, Abhishek; Ilić, Sanja

doi:10.3389/fmed.2020.00009

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Global and Historical Distribution of Clostridioides difficile in the Human Diet (1981–2019): Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of 21886 Samples Reveal Sources of Heterogeneity, High-Risk Foods, and Unexpected Higher Prevalence Toward the Tropic

Published in Frontiers in Medicine • Feb 27, 2020

Authors:

Alexander Rodriguez‐Palacios

Kevin Mo

Bhavan U. Shah

Abstract

Clostridioides difficile (CD) is a spore-forming bacterium that causes life-threatening intestinal infections in humans. Although formerly regarded as exclusively nosocomial, there is increasing genomic evidence that person-to-person transmission accounts for only 72%) employed the same (one-of-six)...

Subject

Meta-analysis

Biology

Sample size determination

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