Host and pathogen factors for Clostridium difficile infection and colonization.

By V. Loo, A. Bourgault, L. Poirier, F. Lamothe, S. Michaud, N. Turgeon, B. Toye, Axelle Beaudoin, E. Frost, R. Gilca and 6 more. New England Journal of Medicine, 2011

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Subfields: Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine, Infectious Diseases

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• Diverse Sources of C. difficile Infection Identified on Whole-Genome Sequencing (2013, background): “Genetically linked to any previous case 333 (35) 240 (25) 529 (55)”
• Clinical Practice Guidelines for Clostridium difficile Infection in Adults and Children: 2017 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA). (2018, neutral): “Advanced age, potentially as a surrogate for severity of illness and comorbidities, is one of the most important risk factors for CDI [46, 96, 97], as is duration of hospitalization.”
• Diagnoses and Timing of 30-Day Readmissions after Hospitalization For Heart Failure, Acute Myocardial Infarction, or Pneumonia (2013, neutral): “Adverse effects of commonly used pharmacotherapies started in the hospital and continued at discharge may exacerbate all of these conditions.(33-35) This heightened vulnerability to a diversity of illnesses may explain why interventions that are broadly applicable to many conditions with multiple co”