Recurrent community-acquired Clostridium(Clostridioides)difficile infection in Serbianchildren

Recurrent community-acquired Clostridium(Clostridioides)difficile infection in Serbianchildren

Information on recurrent Clostridium difficile infections (rCDI) in children is rare and limited, especially community acquired (CA-CDI).This study was designed to identify risk factors for rCA-CDI in Serbian pediatric population. The study group included 71 children (aged from 1 to 14 years) with a...

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Veröffentlicht in:European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases 2020-03, Vol.39 (3), p.509-516
Hauptverfasser: Predrag, Stojanovic, Kuijper, Ed J., Nikola, Stojanović, Vendrik, Karuna E. W., Niko, Radulović
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Antibiotics
Biomedical and Life Sciences
Biomedicine
Body temperature
Children
Daycare
Hospitals
Immunosuppressive agents
Internal Medicine
Leukemia
Medical Microbiology
Original Article
Parameter identification
Population studies
Prediction models
Recurrent infection
Risk analysis
Risk factors
Signs and symptoms
Statistical analysis
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Zusammenfassung:Information on recurrent Clostridium difficile infections (rCDI) in children is rare and limited, especially community acquired (CA-CDI).This study was designed to identify risk factors for rCA-CDI in Serbian pediatric population. The study group included 71 children (aged from 1 to 14 years) with a first episode of CDI. Data were collected from 56 (78.87%) children with only one episode of CA-CDI and from 15 (21.13%) children with rCA-CDI were mutually compared. The following parameters were found to be statistically significantly more frequent in the children with rCA-CDI group ( p  
ISSN:0934-9723
1435-4373
DOI:10.1007/s10096-019-03751-4