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

Melany Gonzalez-Orta; Carlos S Saldana; Yilen Ng-Wong; Jennifer Cadnum; Annette Jencson; Chetan Jinadatha; Curtis J. Donskey

doi:https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciz189

doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciz189

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

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Clinical Infectious Diseases11.80

Volume: 69, Issue: 10, Pages: 1801 - 1804

Published: Mar 11, 2019

Abstract

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...