Risk of Clostridium difficile Infection in Hematology-Oncology Patients Colonized With Toxigenic C. difficile

Cara M. Cannon; Jackson S. Musuuza; Anna K. Barker; Megan Duster; Mark B. Juckett; Aurora E. Pop-Vicas; Nasia Safdar

doi:10.1017/ice.2017.48

Risk of Clostridium difficile Infection in Hematology-Oncology Patients Colonized With Toxigenic C. difficile

Cara M. Cannon, Jackson S. Musuuza, Anna K. Barker, Megan Duster, Mark B. Juckett, Aurora E. Pop-Vicas, Nasia Safdar

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Abstract

The prevalence of colonization with toxigenic Clostridium difficile among patients with hematological malignancies and/or bone marrow transplant at admission to a 566-bed academic medical care center was 9.3%, and 13.3% of colonized patients developed symptomatic disease during hospitalization. This population may benefit from targeted C. difficile infection control interventions.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	718-720
Number of pages	3
Journal	Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
Volume	38
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/ice.2017.48
State	Published - Jun 1 2017
Externally published	Yes

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Risk of Clostridium difficile Infection in Hematology-Oncology Patients Colonized With Toxigenic C. difficile

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