Clostridium difficile infection, Colorado and the northwestern United States, 2007

Emerg Infect Dis. 2012 Jun;18(6):960-2. doi: 10.3201/eid1806.111528.

Abstract

To determine the incidence of Clostridium difficile infection during 2007, we examined infection in adult inpatient and outpatient members of a managed-care organization. Incidence was 14.9 C. difficile infections per 10,000 patient-years. Extrapolating this rate to US adults, we estimate that 284,875 C. difficile infections occurred during 2007.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Anti-Bacterial Agents / therapeutic use
  • Clostridioides difficile*
  • Clostridium Infections / drug therapy
  • Clostridium Infections / epidemiology*
  • Cohort Studies
  • Colorado / epidemiology
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Incidence
  • Male
  • Metronidazole / therapeutic use
  • Middle Aged
  • Northwestern United States / epidemiology
  • Vancomycin / therapeutic use
  • Young Adult

Substances

  • Anti-Bacterial Agents
  • Metronidazole
  • Vancomycin