… is the most frequent cause of hospital-acquired diarrhea 18,… community-acquired in our
investigation (30%). Only half of … what occurs currently, no changes in the clinical features of C. …

… Clostridium difficile is the most common causes of hospital-acquired diarrhea affecting …
Comparison with available reports indicate that the prevalence of community-acquired CDI …

… Previous studies that examined the rates of either nosocomial or community-acquired CDAD
in … inconsistent results, either that CDAD was an important increasing cause of diarrhea or …

… as a significant community acquired pathogen that causes … prospectively the incidence of
community-acquired-CDI (CA-… to be hospital-acquired infection, many clinical laboratories in …

… studies where adequate molecular characterization has been performed, … community
acquired (without hospitalization in the previous 60 days). Again, patients with community-acquired …

… Clostridium difficile is a toxin-producing bacterium that has … Thirty-one cases (14.6%) were
classified as community-acquired … Currently, CMS uses HO-CDI as part of its hospital-acquired …

… antimicrobial susceptibility profile or genotype of hospital-acquired isolates of Clostridium
difficile differed from isolates causing community-acquired disease. Five hundred diarrhoeal …

… Table 1 Characteristics of patients with community acquired Clostridium difficile infection (…
While commonly recognized as a hospital acquired infection, up to 40% of CDI could be …

… the correlation between the microbiologic features of C. … previous three months and 3)
community-acquired (CA)- CDI … were hospital-acquired, mostly due to the same types that were …

… community-acquired CDAD [4, 28, 30, 32]. Noren et al. [32] found that patients with
community-acquired … Several other studies have shown that most patients with community-acquired …