Clostridium difficile Infections in Medical Intensive Care Units of a Medical Center in Southern Taiwan: Variable Seasonality and Disease Severity

• Jen-Chieh Lee ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jen-Chieh Lee, Yuan-Pin Hung

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

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• Yuan-Pin Hung ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jen-Chieh Lee, Yuan-Pin Hung

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Tainan, Taiwan

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• Hsiao-Ju Lin,

  Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Tainan, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Health Research Institutes, Tainan, Taiwan

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• Pei-Jane Tsai ,

  * E-mail: winston3415@gmail.com (WCK); peijtsai@mail.ncku.edu.com (PJT)

  Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

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• Wen-Chien Ko

  * E-mail: winston3415@gmail.com (WCK); peijtsai@mail.ncku.edu.com (PJT)

  Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, Center of Infection Control, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan

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