Low Incidence of Hospital-Onset Clostridium difficile Infection in Sickle Cell Disease

N Engl J Med. 2019 Feb 28;380(9):887-888. doi: 10.1056/NEJMc1815711.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Anemia, Sickle Cell / complications*
  • Clostridioides difficile / isolation & purification*
  • Clostridium Infections / complications
  • Clostridium Infections / epidemiology*
  • Cross Infection / complications
  • Cross Infection / epidemiology*
  • Diarrhea / microbiology
  • Female
  • Hospitalization
  • Humans
  • Incidence
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • New York
  • Retrospective Studies
  • Young Adult