Research Article

Antibiotic use and other risk factors at hospital level for outbreaks with Clostridium difficile PCR ribotype 027

Journal of Medical Microbiology 2008; 57(6):709 · https://doi.org/10.1099/jmm.0.47711-0

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Abstract

1 Centre for Infectious Disease Control, RIVM Bilthoven, The Netherlands

2 Dutch Working Party on Antibiotic Policy (SWAB)/Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

3 Department of Medical Microbiology, Reference Laboratory for Clostridium difficile, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

4 Expertise Centre for Methodology and Information Services, RIVM Bilthoven, The Netherlands

Correspondence
T. I. I. van der Kooi
tjallie.van.der.kooi{at}rivm.nl