Transmission of Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) from patients less than 3 years of age in a pediatric oncology setting | Zendy

Elizabeth Robilotti | Zendy; Weihua Huang | Zendy; N. Esther Babady | Zendy; Donald Chen | Zendy; Mini Kamboj | Zendy

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Transmission of Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) from patients less than 3 years of age in a pediatric oncology setting

Author(s) -

Elizabeth Robilotti,

Weihua Huang,

N. Esther Babady,

Donald Chen,

Mini Kamboj

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

infection control and hospital epidemiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.243

H-Index - 138

eISSN - 1559-6834

pISSN - 0899-823X

DOI - 10.1017/ice.2019.360

Subject(s) - clostridioides , pediatric oncology , transmission (telecommunications) , multilocus sequence typing , medicine , c difficile , oncology , pediatrics , clostridium difficile , biology , microbiology and biotechnology , genetics , gene , cancer , electrical engineering , genotype , engineering , antibiotics

Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) is prevalent in pediatric oncology patients, but the transmission risk to peers is unknown. In 224 children with CDI, multilocus sequence typing (MLST) identified only 7 alleged transmission events (18%) originating from children <3 years old. None of these events were corroborated by WGS.

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