Alice Y Guh, Rongxia Li, Lauren Korhonen, Lisa G Winston, Erin Parker, Christopher A Czaja, Helen Johnston, Elizabeth Basiliere, James Meek, Danyel Olson, Scott K Fridkin, Lucy E Wilson, Rebecca Perlmutter, Stacy M Holzbauer, Paige D'Heilly, Erin C Phipps, Kristina G Flores, Ghinwa K Dumyati, Rebecca Pierce, Valerie L S Ocampo, Christopher D Wilson, Jasmine J Watkins, Dale N Gerding, L Clifford McDonald
BACKGROUND: Because interventions are available to prevent further recurrence in patients with recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection (rCDI), we identified predictors of multiple rCDI (mrCDI) in adults at the time of presentation with initial CDI (iCDI). METHODS: iCDI was defined as a positive C difficile test in any clinical setting during January 2018-August 2019 in a person aged ≥18 years with no known prior positive test. rCDI was defined as a positive test ≥14 days from the previous positive test within 180 days after iCDI; mrCDI was defined as ≥2 rCDI...
April 2024: Open Forum Infectious Diseases