Healthcare-Associated Clostridium difficile Infections and Strain Diversity in Pediatric Hospitals in the Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program, 2007-2011 | Zendy

Nicole Le Saux | Zendy; Denise Gravel | Zendy; M. R. Mulvey | Zendy; Dorothy Moore | Zendy; Joanne M. Langley | Zendy; Susan Richardson | Zendy; Caroline Quach | Zendy; Kelly Baekyung Choi | Zendy; Mark A. Miller | Zendy; Kevin Katz | Zendy

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Healthcare-Associated Clostridium difficile Infections and Strain Diversity in Pediatric Hospitals in the Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program, 2007-2011

Author(s) -

Nicole Le Saux,

Denise Gravel,

M. R. Mulvey,

Dorothy Moore,

Joanne M. Langley,

Susan Richardson,

Caroline Quach,

Kelly Baekyung Choi,

Mark A. Miller,

Kevin Katz

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

journal of the pediatric infectious diseases society

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.269

H-Index - 31

eISSN - 2048-7207

pISSN - 2048-7193

DOI - 10.1093/jpids/piv011

Subject(s) - clostridium difficile , medicine , nap , incidence (geometry) , health care , infection control , c difficile , intensive care medicine , emergency medicine , pediatrics , microbiology and biotechnology , antibiotics , physics , optics , neuroscience , economics , biology , economic growth

Children with healthcare-associated Clostridium difficile infection were identified. The incidence increased from 3.2/10,000 patient days in 2007 to 5.2/10,000 patient days in 2011 (p < 0.001). Of 169 isolates, the most common North American Pulsed-Field (NAP) types were NAP4 (n = 43; (25.4%), and NAP1 (n = 25;14.8%) while 55 (32.6%) were non-assigned NAP types.

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