A Tale of Two Healthcare-associated Infections: Clostridium difficile Coinfection Among Patients With Candidemia

• Type of Material: Article
• Authors: Sharon Tsay, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention; Sabrina R. Williams, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention; Kaitlin Benedict, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention; Zintars Beldavs, Oregon Health Authority; Monica Farley, Emory University; Lee Harrison, University of Pittsburgh; William Schaffner, Vanderbilt University; Ghinwa Dumyati, University of Rochester; Anna Blackstock, Emory University; Alice Guh, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention; Snidgha Vallabhaneni, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
• Language: English
• Date: 2019-02-15
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP): Policy B - Oxford Open Option C
• Publication Version: Final Published Version
• Copyright Statement: © The Author(s) 2018.
• License: Creative Commons Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal
• Final Published Version (URL): http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciy607
• Title of Journal or Parent Work: Clinical Infectious Diseases
• ISSN: 1058-4838
• Volume: 68
• Issue: 4
• Start Page: 676
• End Page: 679
• Keywords: Microbiology; Life Sciences & Biomedicine; hospital; ATLANTA; Clostridium difficile; infections; candidemia; Immunology; ANTIBIOTICS; Infectious Diseases; Science & Technology
• Research Categories: Health Sciences, Medicine and Surgery; Health Sciences, Epidemiology; Biology, Microbiology

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.