| molecular epidemiology of clostridium difficile infection in a major chinese hospital: an underrecognized problem in asia? | clostridium difficile infection is almost unrecognized in mainland china. we have undertaken a study in a large chinese teaching hospital in changsha, hunan, china, to identify cases of c. difficile, record patient characteristics, and define the molecular epidemiology with respect to ribotype distribution and cross-infection. between april 2009 and february 2010, we examined fecal samples from 70 hospitalized patients with diarrhea who were receiving or had received antibiotics within the previ ... | 2013 | 23903542 |