Clostridium Difficile : Epidemiology and Prevention
Journal Title: Journal Of Pediatric Critical Care - Year 2018, Vol 5, Issue 6
Abstract
C. difficile is a Gram-positive anaerobic that forms part of the normal intestinal flora of the human beings.C. difficile infection (CDI) is the most common cause of hospital acquired diarrhea/antibiotic associated diarrhea, in the adult patients.It has been reported that the pediatric CDI has been associated with increased mortality, longer hospital stay and higher costs among hospitalized children.The most important requirements to initiate active surveillance for CDI prevention areto categorise the patients as per the standard definitions, and need to rapidly detect colonisation, and cases of CDI.
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Antariksh Deep, Kundan Mittal
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