C. diff is a bacterium that can cause severe diarrhea and inflammation of the large intestine. What are your risks for C. diff infection?

Lisa Winston, MD; Ryan Miller, DO; and Neha Nanda, MD, discuss measures to reduce the spread of health care-associated Clostridioides difficile infection.

Clostridioides difficile infection surveillance in intensive care units and oncology wards using machine learning

The newly-predominant RT176 and endemic RT001 drive CDI epidemiology in Slovakia. In addition to fluoroquinolones, the use of macrolide-lincosamide-streptogramin B group of antibiotics can represent another driving force for the spread of these epidemic lineages. In C. difficile, linezolid resistanc …

Clostridioides difficile, une bactérie contre laquelle lutter en milieu hospitalier

Clostridioides difficile is a Gram-positive, anaerobic, spore-forming bacillus. It is isolated in 80% of the stools of children and infants and in 3% of healthy adults. It causes gastrointestinal tract infections and affects patients who make prolonged use of antibiotics. It causes C. diff …

With limited resources, an ML model identified the same number of HO-CDI admissions as swab-based surveillance, though it generated more false-positives. The patients identified by the ML model were not yet colonized with C. difficile. Additionally, the ML model identifies at-risk admissions …

There has been an increase in the prevalence of Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) causing significant economic impact on the health care system. Although toxigenic C. diff carriage is recognized in infancy, there is limited data regarding its longitudinal trends, associated epidemiolocal risk facto …

Clostridioides difficile infection in older adults can result in severe infection, difficulty in treating, and complicated disease process, yet few studies have examined the characteristics of hospitalized older adults and recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection. A retrospective cohort study wa …

Clostridioides (Clostridium) difficile (C. difficile) is one of the essential enteropathogens in humans and livestock and is a severe health threat, according to the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention. Also, antimicrobials are one of the most critical risk factors for …

Clostridioides difficile infection can have a significant impact on feelings of depression and anxiety, while worsening quality of life.

Data from New Haven County, Connecticut, suggests the pandemic might have hurt efforts to curb recurrent CDI.

As agent-based models (ABMs) are increasingly used for modeling infectious diseases, model validation is becoming more crucial. In this study, we present an alternate approach to validating hospital ABMs that focuses on replicating hospital-specific conditions and proposes a new metric for validatin …

Recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection (RCDI) causes an increased burden on the healthcare system. We calculated RCDI incidence and identified factors associated with RCDI cases in New Haven County, Connecticut, USA, during 2015-2020 by using data from population-based laboratory surveillance. …

Recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection (RCDI) causes an increased burden on the healthcare system. We calculated RCDI incidence and identified factors associated with RCDI cases in New Haven County, Connecticut, USA, during 2015-2020 by using data from population-based laboratory surveillance. …

As agent-based models (ABMs) are increasingly used for modeling infectious diseases, model validation is becoming more crucial. In this study, we present an alternate approach to validating hospital ABMs that focuses on replicating hospital-specific conditions and proposes a new metric for validatin …

There is still little known concerning the food-borne impact of C. difficile, but the reported contamination might pose a public health risk. Therefore, to improve the food safety and prevent contamination with C. difficile spores, it is necessary to observe hygienic issues during foods preparation, …

Clostridioides difficile produces an environmentally resistant dormant spore morphotype that infected patients shed to the hospital environment. C. difficile spores persist in clinical reservoirs that are not targeted by hospital routine cleaning protocols. Transmissions and infections from these re …

Researchers examined the prevalence and molecular characteristics of CDI in China during a 5-year period.

A patient has a higher risk of infection of C difficile in a hospital bed that previously held a patient who also had C difficile.

Researchers determined independent predictors for hospital-acquired Clostridioides difficile infection in pediatric patients with antibiotic-associated diarrhea.

Introduction Clostridioides difficile (C. difficile) colonizes the large intestine, rendering healthy individuals asymptomatic carriers of the disease. In certain instances, C. difficile infe...

The 90-day mortality among older patients with CDI in a Danish region is 28%. Frailty measured by record-based MPI at discharge outperforms age and disease severity markers in predicting mortality in older patients with CDI.

Despite prevention strategies leading to declining incidence, CDI remains an important public health threat in Germany, with a high burden in the hospital setting and an outpatient epidemiology that is poorly understood. These findings, which are relevant both regionally and globally, can be used as …

A study looking at 5 years of data showed a decrease in the amount of cases, but with some important trends to be aware of in this population.

Graham Snyder, MD, SM, Infectious Diseases Connect: Advisor/Consultant Daria Van Tyne, PhD, Century Therapeutics, Inc: Advisor/Consultant.

Researchers evaluated the natural history of Clostridioides difficile colonization and infection among patients at 3 tertiary care centers.

Clostridium difficile colitis is a serious infection after hip fracture surgery in geriatric patients with an incidence of about 1%. Patients at increased risk should be targeted with preventative measures to prevent the morbidity from this complication.

The proposed model could allow prevention or earlier detection of HAI, which in turn could decrease hospital LoS and associated mortality, and ultimately reduce the healthcare cost.

Meat, meat products and dry fish, but not milk and milk products were contaminated with C. difficile. Contamination rates were low with diverse toxin profiles and antibiotic resistance patterns among the C. difficile strains.