Clostridium difficile-associated disease in the elderly, United States
- PMID: 19193291
- PMCID: PMC2662653
- DOI: 10.3201/eid1502.080785
Clostridium difficile-associated disease in the elderly, United States
Comment on
-
Increase in adult Clostridium difficile-related hospitalizations and case-fatality rate, United States, 2000-2005.Emerg Infect Dis. 2008 Jun;14(6):929-31. doi: 10.3201/eid1406.071447. Emerg Infect Dis. 2008. PMID: 18507904 Free PMC article.
Similar articles
-
Clostridium difficile-related hospitalizations among US adults, 2006.Emerg Infect Dis. 2009 Jan;15(1):122-4. doi: 10.3201/eid1501.080793. Emerg Infect Dis. 2009. PMID: 19116073 Free PMC article. No abstract available.
-
Clostridium difficile infections among hospitalized children, United States, 1997-2006.Emerg Infect Dis. 2010 Oct;16(10):1651; author reply 1651-2. doi: 10.3201/eid1610.100637. Emerg Infect Dis. 2010. PMID: 20875309 Free PMC article. No abstract available.
-
Increase in adult Clostridium difficile-related hospitalizations and case-fatality rate, United States, 2000-2005.Emerg Infect Dis. 2008 Jun;14(6):929-31. doi: 10.3201/eid1406.071447. Emerg Infect Dis. 2008. PMID: 18507904 Free PMC article.
-
Clostridium difficile.Am J Transplant. 2004 Nov;4 Suppl 10:28-30. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-6135.2004.00722.x. Am J Transplant. 2004. PMID: 15504208 Review. No abstract available.
-
Clostridium difficile testing: after 20 years, still challenging.J Clin Microbiol. 2003 Feb;41(2):531-4. doi: 10.1128/JCM.41.2.531-534.2003. J Clin Microbiol. 2003. PMID: 12574241 Free PMC article. Review. No abstract available.
Cited by
-
Heat-Related Hospitalizations in Older Adults: An Amplified Effect of the First Seasonal Heatwave.Sci Rep. 2017 Jan 11;7:39581. doi: 10.1038/srep39581. Sci Rep. 2017. PMID: 28074921 Free PMC article.
-
Seasonal variations in Clostridium difficile infections are associated with influenza and respiratory syncytial virus activity independently of antibiotic prescriptions: a time series analysis in Quebec, Canada.Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2012 Feb;56(2):639-46. doi: 10.1128/AAC.05411-11. Epub 2011 Nov 21. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2012. PMID: 22106208 Free PMC article.
-
Clostridium difficile infections among hospitalized children, United States, 1997-2006.Emerg Infect Dis. 2010 Apr;16(4):604-9. doi: 10.3201/eid1604.090680. Emerg Infect Dis. 2010. PMID: 20350373 Free PMC article.
-
Clostridium difficile infection: An overview of the disease and its pathogenesis, epidemiology and interventions.Gut Microbes. 2010 Jul;1(4):234-242. doi: 10.4161/gmic.1.4.12706. Epub 2010 Jun 16. Gut Microbes. 2010. PMID: 21327030 Free PMC article.
-
Colonization potential to reconstitute a microbe community in patients detected early after fecal microbe transplant for recurrent C. difficile.BMC Microbiol. 2016 Jan 13;16:5. doi: 10.1186/s12866-015-0622-2. BMC Microbiol. 2016. PMID: 26758906 Free PMC article. Clinical Trial.
References
-
- Cohen SA, Naumova EN. Population dynamics in the elderly: the need for age-adjustment in national biosurveillance systems. In: Zeng D, Gotham I, Komatsu K, Lynch C, Thurmond M, Madigan D, et al., editors. Intelligence and security informatics: biosurveillance: Second NSF Workshop, BioSurveillance 2007; 2007 May 22; New Brunswick, NJ, USA. New York: Springer; 2007. p. 47–58.
-
- Jagai JS, Parisi SM, Doshi MP, Naumova EN. Trends and seasonal patterns in hospitalization rates of Clostridium difficile in the US elderly. Washington: American Public Health Association; 2007.
-
- Barlett JG. Clostridium difficile: old and new observations. J Clin Gastroenterol. 2007;41(Suppl 1):S24–9. 10.1097/MCG.0b013e31803d16ec - DOI
Publication types
MeSH terms
LinkOut - more resources
Full Text Sources
Medical