Archives of Clinical Infectious Diseases
Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine Research Center, SBUMS
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What’s up With Clostridium difficile Infection Now?
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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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© 2012, Author(s). This open-access article is available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which allows for unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided that the original work is properly cited.
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