Transmission of Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) from patients less than 3 years of age in a pediatric oncology setting. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) is prevalent in pediatric oncology patients, but the transmission risk to peers is unknown. In 224 children with CDI, multilocus sequence typing (MLST) identified only 7 alleged transmission events (18%) originating from children <3 years old. None of these events were corroborated by WGS.

publication date

  • February 1, 2020

Research

keywords

  • Clostridioides difficile
  • Clostridium Infections

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC7673106

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 85077897542

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1017/ice.2019.360

PubMed ID

  • 31896369

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 41

issue

  • 2