In a meta-analysis of 7,703 Clostridium difficile infection patients, 1,525 developed recurrent infection.
Notes on verification
Confirmed by the original PubMed abstract and multiple independent secondary sources reporting identical figures (7,703 patients; 1,525 recurrent cases, 19.8%).
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