Open AccessTransmission 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 , multilocus sequence typing , transmission (telecommunications) , pediatric oncology , medicine , c difficile , oncology , pediatrics , clostridium difficile , biology , microbiology and biotechnology , cancer , genetics , gene , genotype , electrical engineering , 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.