C Diff Transmission

New study suggests that C. diff infection may be less a matter of hospital transmission and more a result of characteristics associated with the patients.

A new study indicates hospital infections may come from characteristics associated with the patients and not via hospital transmission.

Surprising findings from a new study suggest that the burden of C. diff infection may be less a matter of hospital transmission and more a result of characteristics associated with the patients themselves.

Despite enhanced infection prevention efforts, Clostridioides difficile remains the leading cause of healthcare-associated infections in the United States. Current prevention strategies are limited by their failure to account for patients who carry C. difficile asymptomatically, who may act as hidde …

Nature Medicine - A low rate of Clostridioides difficile transmission within an intensive care unit supports the effectiveness of prevention practices and highlights the greater risk to carriers of...

Clostridioides difficile (C. difficile) infection is still a threat to many healthcare settings worldwide. Clostridioides difficile epidemiology has changed over the last 20 years, largely due to the emergence of hypervirulent and antimicrobial-resistant C. difficile strains. Th …

Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) has become the most common healthcare-associated infection in the United States, with considerable morbidity, mortality, and healthcare costs. Assessing new preventive strategies is vital. We present a literature review of studies evaluating a strategy of scr …

Information on the incidence and distribution of GI pathogens might be clinically useful; however, unlike the distribution of other infectious pathogens, it is necessary to consider that microorganisms identified through molecular diagnostics can be detected even in healthy people without clinical s …

The identification of increased risk of rCDI in immunocompromised pediatric patients warrants further research into alternative therapies, prophylaxis, and prevention strategies to prevent recurrent disease burden within these groups. Treatment of the initial episode with vancomycin did not show sta …

Reducing antibiotic use is one of the biggest challenges in pig farming, as antibiotics have been used for years to control typical problems such as newborn or post-weaning diarrhea. The pressure a one health approach has created on animal production regarding antimicrobial resistance is an opportun …

npj Biofilms and Microbiomes - Neighborhood socioeconomic status is associated with low diversity gut microbiomes and multi-drug resistant microorganism colonization

Mandatory surveillance of healthcare associated infections (HCAI); MRSA, MSSA and Gram-negative bacteraemia (Escherichia coli (E. coli), Pseudomonas aeruginosa (P. aeruginosa), Klebsiella species (Klebsiella. spp.), and Clostridioides difficile (C. difficile) infection. Annual data and epidemiological commentary for the financial year April 2023 to March 2024.

Counts and rates of MRSA, MSSA, E. coli, P. aeruginosa, Klebsiella spp. bacteraemia and C. difficile infection reported by independent sector healthcare organisations, with accompanying commentary.

The global decrease in CDI incidence observed in our hospital was not associated with a change in the use of antibiotics. The control measures implemented to prevent COVID-19 transmission may explain a reduction in CDI incidence. An underdiagnosis of CDI cannot be excluded.

Reconciling that C difficile infection is classified as hospital-onset based only on laboratory identification, while diagnoses is made from multiple factors.

Ribotyping was performed on Clostridioides difficile isolates from patients with malignancies. Thirty-one (27.9%) isolates from 111 episodes of colitis were recovered representing 14 ribotypes with 25 (80.6%) belonging to 6 ribotypes (014/020, 1/VPI/077/087, 05/015, 015/046, 05/053, 106/174). …

Prior studies had produced conflicting results on whether the pandemic positively or negatively impacted health care-associated C. difficile infections, yet the results of this current study indicate the pandemic played a limited role.

Our findings emphasize the importance of including frontline healthcare personnel in infection prevention decision-making processes and the strategies presented here can be applied to mitigating infections in different healthcare settings.

We encountered 34 Clostridioides difficile (C. difficile) infection (CDI) cases among Thoroughbred horses in Japan from 2010 to 2021. Among them, 79.4% (27/34) either died or were euthanised. The risk factors associated with CDI and mortality among Japanese Thoroughbred horses remain unclear. We use …

The role of Clostridioides (C.) difficile as an enteropathogen in dogs is controversial. In humans, intestinal bile acid-dysmetabolism is associated with C. difficile prevalence. The relationship between fecal qPCR-based dysbiosis index (DI) and especially the abundance of bile acid-co …

Although C. difficile has not been linked to canine diarrheal disorders, it appears to be more common in dogs with intestinal dysfunctions. The isolation of ribotypes frequently involved in human CDI outbreaks around the world supports the theory of C. difficile zoonotic transmission.

The study was designed to help scientists better understand how to prevent in-hospital transmission of Clostridioides difficile.

Scientific Reports - Combining a parsimonious mathematical model with infection data from tailor-made experiments to understand environmental transmission

Clostridioides (formerly Clostridium) difficile is the most important infectious cause of antibiotic-associated diarrhea worldwide and a leading cause of healthcare-associated infection in the United States. The incidence of C. difficile infection (CDI) in children has increased, with 20 000 cases n …

There was no difference in the incidence rates of HA-CDI between COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 periods at our institution.

Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) incidence has increased over the last 20 years. Studies suggest that asymptomatic carriers may be an important reservoir of C. difficile in healthcare settings. We conducted a point prevalence study to estimate the toxigenic C. difficile …

CDI is difficult to contain in health care settings because some patients are unknowing carriers of the toxigenic strains of the infection.

Stoma reversal surgery can result in moderate rate of in-hospital CDI. Time-to stoma reversal is a crucial variable significantly related with this adverse outcome.

The COVID-19 pandemic was associated with increases in some healthcare-associated infections. We investigated the impact of the pandemic on the rates and molecular epidemiology of Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) within one VA hospital. We anticipated that the potential widespread use …

Clostridioides difficile remains an important public health threat, globally. Since the emergence of the hypervirulent strain, ribotype 027, new strains have been reported to cause C. difficile infection (CDI) with poor health outcomes, including ribotypes 014/020, 017, 056, 106, and 0 …