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Association Between Outpatient Antibiotic Prescribing Practices and Community-Associated Clostridium difficile Infection.

Winston, Lisa;
Dantes, R;
Mu, Y;
Hicks, LA;
Cohen, J;
Bamberg, W;
Beldavs, ZG;
Dumyati, G;
Farley, MM;
Holzbauer, S;
Meek, J

UC San Francisco Previously Published Works (2015)

Background. Antibiotic use predisposes patients to Clostridium difficile infections (CDI), and approximately 32% of these infections are community-associated (CA) CDI. The population-level impact of antibiotic use on adult CA-CDI rates is not well describ