Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) remains a considerable challenge to healthcare systems worldwide. Although CDI represents a significant burden on healthcare systems in Europe, few studies have attempted to estimate the consumption of resources associated with CDI in Europe. The reported ext …

Since the turn of the millennium, the epidemiology of Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) has continued to challenge. Changes in clinical presentation, severity of disease, descriptions of new risk factors and the occurrence of outbreaks all emphasised the importance of early diagnosis and stan …

Surveillance is essential to inform evidence-based policy and control measures that combat antimicrobial resistance (AMR). The Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program (CNISP) collaborates with 88 sentinel hospitals across Canada to conduct prospective surveillance of infections and antimi …

The novel attribution metric shifts attribution from inpatient units to other settings and correlates modestly with NHSN methodology of attribution. If validated, the attribution metric may more accurately target C. difficile reduction efforts.

Vancomycin, fidaxomicin, and metronidazole remain in vitro effective against clinical C. difficile isolates in Taiwan. The reservoirs and genetic relatedness of two major RTs with zoonotic potentials, RT 078/126 and 014/020, warrant further investigations.

This study identified increased Clostridioides difficile in HAI cases during COVID-19, highlighting the need for careful antibiotic use and emphasizing the growing challenge of multi-resistant strains in post-pandemic state hospitals.

This is the largest study of CDI in pediatric oncology patients to date. The study identifies specific oncologic diagnoses with increased CDI risk and factors predictive of poor outcomes. As CDI treatment guidelines are developed for this population, these data will be useful for risk stratification …

Children who had been treated with antibiotics and not breastfed were more susceptible to CDI. Therefore, in order to prevent and to control the spread of CD infection, being prudent to the aforementioned high-risk factors is strongly advocated in clinical practice.

Background: Regionalization of surgical care shifts higher acuity patients to larger centers. Hospital-associated infections (HAIs) are important quality measures with financial implications. In our ongoing efforts to eliminate HAIs, we examined the potential role for inter-hospital tr …

Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) is a major cause of healthcare-associated diarrhea, despite the widespread implementation of contact precautions for patients with CDI. Here, we investigate strain contamination in a hospital setting and genomic determinants of disease outcomes. Across …

Make sure to disinfect beds properly after they are used by someone with Clostridioides difficile, or C. diff. According to a new study, staying in a bed previously used by a person with C. diff raises the risk that they’ll get the infection.

Scientific Reports - Clostridioides difficile infection in thoroughbred horses in Japan from 2010 to 2021

A study of more than 25,000 hospitals encounters found that staying in a hospital bed that previously had a patient with C diff was associated with an increased risk of hospital-onset CDI.

Residing in a hospital bed or room that previously had a patient with C. difficile increases the risk of HO-CDI. Increased attention to cleaning and disinfecting the healthcare environment may reduce hospital transmission of C. difficile.

Surveillance findings from a national network of Canadian acute care hospitals indicate that rates of MRSA and VRE bloodstream infections, CPE infections and colonizations have increased substantially between 2016 and 2020 while rates of CDI have decreased. The collection of detailed, standardized s …

Brazilian researchers at two tertiary care hospitals found 17% of a group of 92 adult ICU patients were colonized with Clostridioides difficile, but colonization was ...

Nearly half the patients identified as having healthcare facility-onset Clostridioides difficile infections (HO-CDI) on a hematopoietic cell transplant (HCT) unit had an alternative clinical explanation for diarrhea, including conditioning regimen toxicity or other medications. Our study supports th …

Dr. Nicola Petrosillo discusses treating C difficile infection and maintaining antimicrobial stewardship during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy.

Diabetes Awareness Month in November highlights the heightened susceptibility of diabetes patients to infections. Explore the key reasons behind their increased infection risk and the importance of infection prevention.

The risk of CDI in Korean patients with IBD was approximately seven times higher than that in controls without IBD, and the annual year-end prevalence of CDI continuously increased from 2008 to 2018.

Hospital patients who test positive for Clostridioides difficile immediately upon admission but show no symptoms are highly unlikely to spread the germ to other inpatients.

CDI in neurosurgery patients differed from the wider hospital, with greater awareness of CDI testing. Longer LOS impacted bed utilisation with limited capacity. Robust surveillance supports proactive antimicrobial stewardship programmes in this vulnerable population.

Validated and curated datasets are essential for studying the spread and control of infectious diseases in hospital settings, requiring clinical information on patients' evolution and their location. The literature shows that approaches based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the development of cli …

Scientific Reports - Spatial-temporal simulation for hospital infection spread and outbreaks of Clostridioides difficile

Background The gram-negative anaerobe Clostridium difficile is the main infectious cause of pseudomembranous colitis and infectious diarrhea in hospitalized patients. Inflammatory bowel disea...

These findings highlight the predominance of HO-CDI and the need for further investigation into CO-CDI in the Indian context to identify at-risk populations. Utilizing standardized surveillance methods such as NHSN definitions can facilitate accurate disease burden estimation, trend monitoring, and …

Routine screenings for C diff on admission to the hospital could possibly prevent C diff transmission in the hospital setting.

Clostridioides difficile is the most important pathogen causing antimicrobial-associated diarrhea and has recently been recognized as a cause of community-associated C. difficile infection (CA-CDI). This study aimed to characterize virulence factors, antimicrobial resistance (AMR), rib …

BACKGROUND Clostridioides difficile (C. difficile) is a bacterium that is well known for causing serious diarrheal infections and can even lead to colon cancer if left untreated. Disruption of the normal healthy bacteria in the colon can lead to development of C. difficile colitis. Risk factors for …

The 31-year-old, from Houston, was diagnosed with C. diff, a highly contagious infection that throws the digestive system off balance and leads to painful inflammation in the colon.