Surgery
Volume 148, Issue 1 , Pages 24-30 , July 2010

Postoperative Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea

Portions of this research were presented at The American College of Gastroenterology Annual Meeting, October 2007, Philadelphia, PA.

  • William N. Southern, MD, MS

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY
    • Division of General Internal Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: William N. Southern, MD, MS, Department of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Moses Research Tower, 8th Floor, 111 East 210th Street, Bronx, NY 10467.
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  • Rabin Rahmani, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY
    • ,
  • Olga Aroniadis, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY
    • ,
  • Igal Khorshidi, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY
    • ,
  • Andy Thanjan, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY
    • ,
  • Christopher Ibrahim, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY
    • ,
  • Lawrence J. Brandt, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY
    • Division of Gastroenterology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY
    • Department of Surgery, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY

,Accepted 25 November 2009.

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 Supported by The Institute for Medical Effectiveness Research, a joint project of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the North Shore-LIJ Health System, the Clinical Investigation Core of the Center for AIDS Research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center, funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH P30 AI51519), and the Montefiore Mentored Health Services Research Career Development Award.

PII: S0039-6060(09)00779-X

doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2009.11.021

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