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SUBMITTER: Rizzardi K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6106436 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Rizzardi Kristina K Norén Torbjörn T Aspevall Olov O Mäkitalo Barbro B Toepfer Michael M Johansson Åsa Å Åkerlund Thomas T
Emerging infectious diseases 20180901 9
We report results from a national surveillance program for Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) in Sweden, where CDI incidence decreased by 22% and the proportion of multidrug-resistant isolates decreased by 80% during 2012-2016. Variation in incidence between counties also diminished during this period, which might be attributable to implementation of nucleic acid amplification testing as the primary diagnostic tool for most laboratories. In contrast to other studies, our study did not indi ...[more]