A Tale of Two Healthcare-associated Infections: Clostridium difficile Coinfection Among Patients With Candidemia. (27th July 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Tsay, Sharon; Williams, Sabrina R; Benedict, Kaitlin; Beldavs, Zintars; Farley, Monica; Harrison, Lee; Schaffner, William; Dumyati, Ghinwa; Blackstock, Anna; Guh, Alice; Vallabhaneni, Snigdha
• Is Part Of: Clinical infectious diseases. Volume 68:Number 4(2019)
• Page Start: 676
• Page End: 679
• Publication Date: 2018-07-27
• Subjects: candidemia -- Clostridium difficile -- infections -- hospital; Communicable diseases -- Periodicals; 616.905
• DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciy607
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1058-4838

Abstract

Abstract: Candidemia and Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) are important healthcare-associated infections that share certain risk factors. We sought to describe candidemia-CDI coinfection using population-based surveillance data. We found that nearly 1 in 10 patients with candidemia had CDI coinfection.