Stronger correlation between antibiotic use and the incidence of Clostridium difficile determined by culture results instead of faecal toxin detection only.

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Published in Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis on August 13, 2010

Authors

D Mertz1, R Frei, H Plagge, M Battegay, A F Widmer

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1: Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Basel, Petersgraben 4, 4031 Basel, Switzerland.

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