Clostridium difficile Infection, Colorado and the Northwestern United States, 2007
- Jennifer L. Kuntz
- Eric S. Johnson
- Marsha A. Raebel
- Amanda F. Petrik
- Xiuhai Yang
- Micah L. Thorp
- Steven J. Spindel
- Nancy Neil
- David H. Smith
Publication date
June 2012
DOI Publisher
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Journal
Emerging Infectious DiseasesAbstract
To determine the incidence of Clostridium difficile infection during 2007, we examined infection in adult inpatient and outpatient members of a managed-care organization. Incidence was 14.9 C. difficile infections per 10,000 patient-years. Extrapolating this rate to US adults, we estimate that 284,875 C. difficile infections occurred during 2007
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