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| Title |
A unique strain of community-acquired Clostridium difficile in severe complicated infection and death of a young adult
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Infectious Diseases, July 2013
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2334-13-299 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Orville D Heslop, Karen Roye-Green, Kathleen Coard, Michael R Mulvey |
| Abstract |
Clostridium difficile is the major cause of nosocomial antibiotic-associated diarrhoea with the potential risk of progressing to severe clinical outcomes including death. It is not unusual for Clostridium difficile infection to progress to complications of toxic megacolon, bowel perforation and even Gram-negative sepsis following pathological changes in the intestinal mucosa. These complications are however less commonly seen in community-acquired Clostridium difficile infection than in hospital-acquired Clostridium difficile infection. To the best of our knowledge, this was the first case of community-acquired Clostridium difficile infection of its type seen in Jamaica. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 50% |
| Unknown | 2 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 50% |
| Members of the public | 2 | 50% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 54 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 54 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Other | 8 | 15% |
| Student > Bachelor | 7 | 13% |
| Researcher | 6 | 11% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 5 | 9% |
| Librarian | 4 | 7% |
| Other | 16 | 30% |
| Unknown | 8 | 15% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 19 | 35% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 9 | 17% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 8 | 15% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 2 | 4% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 2 | 4% |
| Other | 4 | 7% |
| Unknown | 10 | 19% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 11 July 2013.
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#14,171,982
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#3,751
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#109,703
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#74
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