| epidemiology of clostridium difficile-associated disease at university hospital basel including molecular characterisation of the isolates 2006-2007. | a prospective study was conducted during a one-year period between 2006 and 2007 to describe the epidemiology of clostridium difficile-associated disease (cdad) at university hospital basel, switzerland (uhbs) and to determine phenotypic and genotypic features of c. difficile strains isolated at the microbiology laboratory uhbs including strains from regional non-university hospitals. we prospectively identified 78 cdad cases at uhbs with an incidence of 2.65/1,000 hospitalised patients or 2.3/1 ... | 2008 | 18560909 |