Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (2001) 47, 719
© 2001 The British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
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Ureidopenicillins and risk of Clostridium difficile infection
Department of Microbiology, University of Leeds and The General Infirmary, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
Sir,
In their prospective study of 2462 antibiotic-treated hospitalized patients, Wiström and colleagues1 state that . . . the highest frequencies of antibiotic-associated diarrhoea (AAD) were found in patients treated with broad-spectrum penicillins (ampicillin derivatives, pivmecillinam and piperacillin
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