SHEA Panel Provides Recommendations for Managing CDI in NICU

By Ethan Covey

Routine testing for Clostridioides difficile (formerly Clostridium difficile) should not be done in infants younger than 12 months of age who are in the neonatal ICU (NICU), according to new recommendations released by the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2018 Aug 31. [Epub ahead of print]).

Although C. difficile infection (CDI) is one of the most prevalent health care–associated infections affecting children, reports of the