Increase in adult Clostridium difficile-related Hospitalizations and case-fatality rate, United States, 2000-2005

Virulence of and deaths from Clostridium difficile-associated disease (CDAD) are on the rise in the United States. The incidence of adult CDAD hospitalizations doubled from 5.5 cases per 10,000 population in 2000 to 11.2 in 2005, and the CDAD-related age-adjusted case-fatality rate rose from 1.2% in...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Emerging infectious diseases 2008-06, Vol.14 (6), p.929-931
Hauptverfasser:	ZILBERBERG, M.D, SHORR, A.F, KOLLEF, M.H
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adolescent Adult Age Factors Aged Aged, 80 and over Biological and medical sciences Clostridium Clostridium difficile - isolation & purification Clostridium difficile–associated disease Clostridium infections costs Diagnosis Dispatch Drug therapy Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous - epidemiology Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous - microbiology Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous - mortality Health aspects hospital Hospital care Hospital Mortality - trends Hospitalization - statistics & numerical data Humans Incidence Least-Squares Analysis Length of Stay Medical sciences Middle Aged Miscellaneous Mortality Patient outcomes population epidemiology Public health. Hygiene Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine Risk factors Statistics United States United States - epidemiology
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Zusammenfassung:	Virulence of and deaths from Clostridium difficile-associated disease (CDAD) are on the rise in the United States. The incidence of adult CDAD hospitalizations doubled from 5.5 cases per 10,000 population in 2000 to 11.2 in 2005, and the CDAD-related age-adjusted case-fatality rate rose from 1.2% in 2000 to 2.2% in 2004.
ISSN:	1080-6040 1080-6059
DOI:	10.3201/eid1406.071447