Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on prevalence of Clostridioides difficile infection in a UK tertiary centre

Serious concerns have been raised about a possible increase in cases of Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) during the COVID-19 pandemic. We conducted a retrospective observational single centre study which revealed that total combined community and hospital-based quarterly rates of CDI decreas...

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Autores principales: Voona, Sanjana, Abdic, Heather, Montgomery, Ros, Clarkson, Annette, Twitchell, Hannah, Hills, Tim, Briggs, Steve, Crooks, Colin, Monaghan, Tanya M.
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Publicado: Elsevier Ltd. 2022
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Short Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8607812/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34801705
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anaerobe.2021.102479
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author Voona, Sanjana
Abdic, Heather
Montgomery, Ros
Clarkson, Annette
Twitchell, Hannah
Hills, Tim
Briggs, Steve
Crooks, Colin
Monaghan, Tanya M.
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Abdic, Heather
Montgomery, Ros
Clarkson, Annette
Twitchell, Hannah
Hills, Tim
Briggs, Steve
Crooks, Colin
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description Serious concerns have been raised about a possible increase in cases of Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) during the COVID-19 pandemic. We conducted a retrospective observational single centre study which revealed that total combined community and hospital-based quarterly rates of CDI decreased during the pandemic compared to the pre-pandemic period.
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spelling pubmed-86078122021-11-22 Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on prevalence of Clostridioides difficile infection in a UK tertiary centre Voona, Sanjana Abdic, Heather Montgomery, Ros Clarkson, Annette Twitchell, Hannah Hills, Tim Briggs, Steve Crooks, Colin Monaghan, Tanya M. Anaerobe Short Communication Serious concerns have been raised about a possible increase in cases of Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) during the COVID-19 pandemic. We conducted a retrospective observational single centre study which revealed that total combined community and hospital-based quarterly rates of CDI decreased during the pandemic compared to the pre-pandemic period. Elsevier Ltd. 2022-02 2021-11-18 /pmc/articles/PMC8607812/ /pubmed/34801705 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anaerobe.2021.102479 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.
spellingShingle Short Communication
Voona, Sanjana
Abdic, Heather
Montgomery, Ros
Clarkson, Annette
Twitchell, Hannah
Hills, Tim
Briggs, Steve
Crooks, Colin
Monaghan, Tanya M.
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on prevalence of Clostridioides difficile infection in a UK tertiary centre
title Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on prevalence of Clostridioides difficile infection in a UK tertiary centre
title_full Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on prevalence of Clostridioides difficile infection in a UK tertiary centre
title_fullStr Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on prevalence of Clostridioides difficile infection in a UK tertiary centre
title_full_unstemmed Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on prevalence of Clostridioides difficile infection in a UK tertiary centre
title_short Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on prevalence of Clostridioides difficile infection in a UK tertiary centre
title_sort impact of covid-19 pandemic on prevalence of clostridioides difficile infection in a uk tertiary centre
topic Short Communication
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8607812/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34801705
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anaerobe.2021.102479
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