What’s up With Clostridium difficile Infection Now?

Abstract

Recent report from Center for Diseases Control and Prevention (CDC), based on an analysis of 10,342 cases of CDI in 111 hospitals and 310 nursing homes, showed that 75% of patients were already colonized with C. difficile at the time of admission (1). Nearly all (94%) of these cases were “healthcare-associated”, meaning that acquisition occurred during an outpatient visit, a nursing home stay, the current hospitalization, or previous hospitalization. Only 25% of patients actually acquired the pathogen in the same hospital where clinical expression of CDI occurred. In fact, it means that the Clostridium difficile Infection is a hospital acquired infection