What’s up With Clostridium difficile Infection Now?

authors:

avatar Masoud Mardani 1 , *

Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran
Archives of Clinical Infectious Diseases: Vol.7, issue 3; e93427
published online: July 02, 2012
article type: Editorial
received: May 12, 2019
accepted: May 20, 2012

How To Cite Mardani M. What’s up With Clostridium difficile Infection Now?. Arch Clin Infect Dis. 2012;7(3):e93427. 

Abstract

Recent report from Center for Diseases Control and Prevention (CDC), based on an analysis of 10,342 cases of CDI in 111 hospitals and 310 nursing homes, showed that 75% of patients were already colonized with C. difficile at the time of admission (1). Nearly all (94%) of these cases were “healthcare-associated”, meaning that acquisition occurred during an outpatient visit, a nursing home stay, the current hospitalization, or previous hospitalization. Only 25% of patients actually acquired the pathogen in the same hospital where clinical expression of CDI occurred. In fact, it means that the Clostridium difficile Infection is a hospital acquired infection

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