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JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL CHEMOTHERAPY
Volume 63, Issue 2, Pages 238-242Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkn477
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is recognized as a major cause of antibiotic-associated diarrhoea and colitis. Antimicrobial agents have been repeatedly recognized as a causative risk for C. difficile-associated diarrhoea (CDAD) and more recently fluoroquinolones have been particularly implicated. Unfortunately, not all reports of antimicrobial associations with CDAD have excluded variables other than antimicrobial use. Prevention of CDAD usually involves infection control interventions and antimicrobial restriction policies may not be fully substantiated by currently available data; however, antimicrobial drug restriction seems prudent in outbreak situations.
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