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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 April 2017

Cara M. Cannon ,
Jackson S. Musuuza ,
Anna K. Barker ,
Megan Duster ,
Mark B. Juckett ,
Aurora E. Pop-Vicas  and
Nasia Safdar
Cara M. Cannon
Affiliation:
Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin
Jackson S. Musuuza
Affiliation:
Institute of Clinical and Translational Research, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Affairs Hospital, Madison, Wisconsin.
Anna K. Barker
Affiliation:
Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin
Megan Duster
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin
Mark B. Juckett
Affiliation:
Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin
Aurora E. Pop-Vicas
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin
Nasia Safdar*
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Affairs Hospital, Madison, Wisconsin.
*
Address correspondence to Nasia Safdar, MD, PhD, UWMF Centennial Building, 1685 Highland Avenue, Madison, WI 53705 ([email protected]).
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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.

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2017;38:718–720

Type
Concise Communications
Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 38 , Issue 6 , June 2017 , pp. 718 - 720
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© 2017 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved 

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Footnotes

PREVIOUS PRESENTATION. These data were presented in abstract form at the SHEA conference, Atlanta, Georgia on May 19, 2016.

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