Incidence of Pediatric Community Associated Clostridium Difficile Infection Following Common Antibotics

Healthcare-Associated Clostridium difficile Infections and Strain Diversity in Pediatric Hospitals in the Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program, 2007-2011.

Children with healthcare-associated Clostridium difficile infection were identified. The incidence increased from 3.2/10,000 patient days in 2007 to 5.2/10,000 patient days in 2011 (p < 0.001). Of 169 isolates, the most common North American Pulsed-Field (NAP) types were NAP4 (n = 43; (25.4%), and NAP1 (n = 25;14.8%) while 55 (32.6%) were non-assigned NAP types.

Clostridium difficile in the Pediatric Population of Monroe County, New York.

BACKGROUND Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) incidence in hospitalized children has increased over the past decade and disease has been reported in the community. Therefore, population surveillance that includes nonhospitalized cases is important to accurately estimate the burden of CDI in children. We describe the epidemiology of CDI in the pediatric population of Monroe County, New York. ...

527Age-Related Changes in the Incidence of Community-Associated Clostridium Difficile Infection (CDI)

Clostridium difficile Infection and Proton Pump Inhibitor Use in Hospitalized Pediatric Cystic Fibrosis Patients

Children with cystic fibrosis (CF) often take proton pump inhibitors (PPIs), which helps improve efficacy of fat absorption with pancreatic enzyme replacement therapy. However, PPI use is known to be associated with Clostridium difficile-(C. diff-) associated diarrhea (CDAD). We retrospectively evaluated the incidence of C. diff infection from all pediatric hospital admissions over a 5-year per...

Clostridium difficile: An uncommon presentation of an increasingly common infection

This clinical case describes a healthy 6 year old female presenting to the outpatient clinic with frequent, watery diarrhea after a course of antibiotics prescribed for acute sinusitis. She was subsequently diagnosed with Clostridium difficile Infection (CDI). Clostridium difficile Infection is a toxin mediated diarrheal illness typically presenting in adults during or within a few weeks of ant...