Did Clostridioides difficile testing and infection rates change during the COVID-19 pandemic?

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Testing for and incidence of Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) was examined at a single center before and during the first surge of the COVID-19 pandemic. Incidence of CDI remained stable but testing statistically significantly decreased during the first surge despite an increase in antibioti...

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Autores principales: Hawes, Armani Minasian, Desai, Angel, Patel, Payal K.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Ltd. 2021
Materias:
Clostridioides difficile (Including Epidemiology)
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8141342/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34029702
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anaerobe.2021.102384
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description Testing for and incidence of Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) was examined at a single center before and during the first surge of the COVID-19 pandemic. Incidence of CDI remained stable but testing statistically significantly decreased during the first surge despite an increase in antibiotic use. There were no new CDI-focused antimicrobial stewardship interventions introduced during this time.
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spelling pubmed-81413422021-05-24 Did Clostridioides difficile testing and infection rates change during the COVID-19 pandemic? Hawes, Armani Minasian Desai, Angel Patel, Payal K. Anaerobe Clostridioides difficile (Including Epidemiology) Testing for and incidence of Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) was examined at a single center before and during the first surge of the COVID-19 pandemic. Incidence of CDI remained stable but testing statistically significantly decreased during the first surge despite an increase in antibiotic use. There were no new CDI-focused antimicrobial stewardship interventions introduced during this time. Elsevier Ltd. 2021-08 2021-05-23 /pmc/articles/PMC8141342/ /pubmed/34029702 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anaerobe.2021.102384 Text en © 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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Did Clostridioides difficile testing and infection rates change during the COVID-19 pandemic?
title Did Clostridioides difficile testing and infection rates change during the COVID-19 pandemic?
title_full Did Clostridioides difficile testing and infection rates change during the COVID-19 pandemic?
title_fullStr Did Clostridioides difficile testing and infection rates change during the COVID-19 pandemic?
title_full_unstemmed Did Clostridioides difficile testing and infection rates change during the COVID-19 pandemic?
title_short Did Clostridioides difficile testing and infection rates change during the COVID-19 pandemic?
title_sort did clostridioides difficile testing and infection rates change during the covid-19 pandemic?
topic Clostridioides difficile (Including Epidemiology)
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8141342/
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