Are Many Patients Diagnosed With Healthcare-associated Clostridioides difficile Infections Colonized With the Infecting Strain on Admission?

Autor:	Jennifer Cadnum, Curtis J. Donskey, Chetan Jinadatha, Melany Gonzalez-Orta, Annette Jencson, Yilen Ng-Wong, Carlos S Saldana
Rok vydání:	2019
Předmět:	Adult Male 0301 basic medicine Microbiology (medical) medicine.medical_specialty 030106 microbiology Young Adult 03 medical and health sciences Patient Admission 0302 clinical medicine Healthcare associated Risk Factors Internal medicine Acute care medicine Humans Infection control Colonization Prospective Studies 030212 general & internal medicine Aged Aged 80 and over Whole genome sequencing Cross Infection Whole Genome Sequencing Clostridioides difficile business.industry Strain (biology) Rectum Middle Aged Hospitalization Infectious Diseases Carrier State Cohort Clostridium Infections Female business Genome Bacterial Clostridioides
Zdroj:	Clinical Infectious Diseases. 69:1801-1804
ISSN:	1537-6591 1058-4838
DOI:	10.1093/cid/ciz189
Popis:	In a cohort of 480 patients admitted to an acute care hospital, 68 (14%) had positive perirectal cultures for toxigenic Clostridioides difficile on admission. Of the 11 patients (2%) diagnosed with healthcare-associated C. difficile infections, 3 (27%) had genetically related admission and infection isolates, based on whole-genome sequencing.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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