| clinical characteristics and risk factors for community-acquired clostridium difficile infection: a retrospective, case-control study in a tertiary care hospital in japan. | the epidemiology of clostridium difficile infection (cdi) has changed in the past decade. the incidence, prevalence, and severity of community-acquired cdi (ca-cdi) have increased. however, the epidemiology of ca-cdi in japan has not been investigated. to evaluate the clinical characteristics and risk factors for ca-cdi in japan, we conducted a retrospective, case-control study of ca-cdi at the national hospital organization tokyo medical center between january 2010 and december 2014. two age- a ... | 2015 | 26482373 |
| molecular epidemiology and antimicrobial susceptibility of clostridium difficile isolated from a university teaching hospital in japan. | clostridium difficile infection control strategies require an understanding of its epidemiology. in this study, we analysed the toxin genotypes of 130 non-duplicate clinical isolates of c. difficile from a university hospital in tokyo, japan. multilocus sequence typing (mlst) and eburst analysis were performed for these isolates and nine strains previously analysed by polymerase chain reaction (pcr) ribotyping. minimum inhibitory concentrations (mics) were determined for six antibiotics, and the ... | 2015 | 25471195 |