Clinical and Microbiological Risk Factors for Community-Associated Clostridioides difficile Infections / 대한임상미생물학회지
Annals of Clinical Microbiology
;
: 53-58, 2022.
Article
in English
| WPRIM
| ID: wpr-937126
ABSTRACT
Background@#The incidence of community-associated (CA) Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) has increased in Korea. In this study, we evaluated CA-CDI risk factors in terms of clinical features and ribotype considering its region-specific molecular epidemiology. @*Methods@#A retrospective case-control study was performed on two groups of CDI patients127 subjects with CA-CDI and 265 subjects with healthcare-associated (HA)-CDI. Risk factors for CA-CDI were evaluated in terms of clinical and microbiological features such as toxin type and ribotype. @*Results@#A comparison of the two groups of CDI patients revealed that inflammatory bowel disease, diarrhea, abdominal pain, and fever were more closely associated with CA-CDI. The toxin types and ribotypes of C. difficile were similar between the two groups. After adjusting for variables, no risk factors were identified for CA-CDI compared with HA-CDI. @*Conclusion@#Specific risk factors for CA-CDI were not identified in this study.
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Type of study:
Etiology study
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Observational study
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Prognostic study
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Risk factors
Language:
English
Journal:
Annals of Clinical Microbiology
Year:
2022
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