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Provedor de dados: 	Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases	
País: 	Brazil	
Título: 	Nosocomial diarrhea in the intensive care unit	
Autores: 	Marcon,Ana Paula; Gamba,Mônica Antar; Vianna,Lucila Amaral Carneiro.	
Data: 	2006-12-01	
Ano: 	2006	
Palavras-chave: 	Nosocomial infections; Diarrhea; Antibiotics; Intensive care; Clostridium difficile.	
Resumo: 	We made an epidemiological case-control study to examine risk factors for the development of diarrhea in the intensive care unit (ICU) of a public hospital in Santo André, SP, from January to October 2002. Forty-nine patients with diarrhea (cases) and 49 patients without diarrhea (controls), matched for age and gender, were included in the study. A stool culture and enzyme immunoassays for Clostridium difficile toxins A and B were performed on fecal specimens from diarrhea patients. Fourteen of them presented positive cultures for Pseudomonas aeruginosa and 22 patients presented positive ELISA for Clostridium diffícile. Nosocomial diarrhea was associated with several factors, including use of antibiotics (P=0.001), use of ceftriaxone (P=0.001), presence of infection (P=0.010) and length of hospital stay (P=0.0001).	
Tipo: 	Info:eu-repo/semantics/article	
Idioma: 	Inglês	
Identificador: 	http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702006000600005	
Editor: 	Brazilian Society of Infectious Diseases	
Relação: 	10.1590/S1413-86702006000600005	
Formato: 	text/html	
Fonte: 	Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases  v.10 n.6 2006	
Fonte: 	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess