Open AccessTransmission Dynamics of Clostridioides difficile in 2 High-Acuity Hospital Units
Author(s) -
Karim Khader,
L Silvia Muñoz-Price,
Ryan Hanson,
Vanessa Stevens,
Lindsay T Keegan,
Alun Thomas,
Liliana E. Pezzin,
Ann B. Nattinger,
Siddhartha Singh,
Matthew H. Samore
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
clinical infectious diseases/clinical infectious diseases (online. university of chicago. press)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44
H-Index - 336
eISSN - 1537-6591
pISSN - 1058-4838
DOI - 10.1093/cid/ciaa1580
Subject(s) - clostridioides , medicine , transmission (telecommunications) , medical emergency , telecommunications , computer science
The key epidemiological drivers of Clostridioides difficile transmission are not well understood. We estimated epidemiological parameters to characterize variation in C. difficile transmission, while accounting for the imperfect nature of surveillance tests.