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A Tale of Two Healthcare-associated Infections: Clostridium difficile Coinfection Among Patients With Candidemia

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CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Volume 68, Issue 4, Pages 676-679

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OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciy607

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candidemia; Clostridium difficile; infections; hospital

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Candidemia and Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) are important healthcare-associated infections that share certain risk factors. We sought to describe candidemia-CDI coinfection using population-based surveillance data. We found that nearly 1 in 10 patients with candidemia had CDI coinfection.

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