By David Wild
Originally published by our sister publication, Gastroenterology & Endoscopy News
Brazilian researchers at two tertiary care hospitals found 17% of a group of 92 adult ICU patients were colonized with Clostridioides difficile, but colonization was not associated with diarrhea or death.
Following up on previous research showing that 11.8% of hospitalized patients with diarrhea in Brazil had C. difficile infection (CDI), lead investigator Marcio Fernando Spagnól,