Clinical and molecular characteristics of community-acquired Clostridium difficile infections in comparison with those of hospital-acquired C. ádifficile

SS Kwon, JL Gim, MS Kim, H Kim, JY Choi, D Yong… - Anaerobe, 2017 - Elsevier
Community-acquired Clostridium difficile infection accounted for 11.5% of … community-acquired
Clostridium difficile infection (CA-CDI) and hospital-acquired Clostridium difficile infection

Characterization of cases of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) presenting at an emergency room: molecular and clinical features differentiate community-onset …

BM Shin, SJ Moon, YS Kim, WC Shin… - Journal of clinical …, 2011 - Am Soc Microbiol
Clostridium difficile is the most important hospital-acquired pathogen responsible for
antibiotic-associated diarrhea. Community-acquired C. … of Clostridium difficile infection. J. Clin. …

Clinical features of Clostridium difficile infection and molecular characterization of the isolated strains in a cohort of Danish hospitalized patients

LM Søes, I Brock, S Persson, J Simonsen… - … & infectious diseases, 2012 - Springer
Clinical features were obtained by questionnaire. Thirty percent of the CDI cases were classified
as community-acquired… with hospital-acquired/healthcare-associated CDI compared to …

Molecular Epidemiology of Hospital-Associated and Community-Acquired Clostridium difficile Infection in a Swedish County

T Norén, T Akerlund, E Back, L Sjoberg… - Journal of clinical …, 2004 - Am Soc Microbiol
… CDAD mainly was a hospital-associated problem, a majority of the inpatients apparently
fell ill due to their endogenous C. difficile strain rather than from a hospital-acquired one. This …

Clinical characteristics and risk factors for community-acquired Clostridium difficile infection: a retrospective, case-control study in a tertiary care hospital in Japan

N Mori, Y Aoki - Journal of Infection and Chemotherapy, 2015 - Elsevier
… the clinical characteristics and risk factors of CA-CDI in Japan. … that the incidence of CA-CDI
is lower than these estimates. During the same period, the incidence of hospital-acquired

Characteristics of Clostridium difficile isolates and the burden of hospital-acquired Clostridium difficile infection in a tertiary teaching hospital in Chongqing …

W Dai, T Yang, L Yan, S Niu, C Zhang, J Sun… - BMC Infectious …, 2020 - Springer
… the clinical and epidemiological features of HA-CDI and the characteristics of C.difficile
guide priorities for the management of hospital-acquired Clostridium difficile infection (HA-CDI). …

[HTML][HTML] Epidemiological and genomic characterization of community-acquired Clostridium difficile infections

CS Thornton, JE Rubin… - BMC Infectious …, 2018 - bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.com
Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in North America
and Europe. The aim of this study was to identify epidemiologically-confirmed cases of …

Molecular, microbiological and clinical characterization of Clostridium difficile isolates from tertiary care hospitals in Colombia

CL Salazar, C Reyes, S Atehortua, P Sierra… - PLoS …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
… CDI is a hospital-acquired infection; but lately, C. … to characterize at the molecular and
microbiological level C. difficile isolates, and to analyse the clinical characteristics of patients with …

A retrospective study of community-acquired Clostridium difficile infection in southwest China

F Liao, W Li, W Gu, W Zhang, X Liu, X Fu, W Xu, Y Wu… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
… the prevalence and characteristics of community-acquired Clostridium difficile infection (CA-CDI…
aureus as the most common hospital-acquired infection 3 . Although elderly hospitalized …

First clinical and microbiological characterization of Clostridium difficile infection in a Croatian University Hospital

A Novak, P Spigaglia, F Barbanti, I Goic-Barisic… - Anaerobe, 2014 - Elsevier
community-acquired pneumonia and developed an infection caused by a strain of PCR-ribotype
014/020. The 24 year pregnant woman developed a severe CDI after only two days of …