High Colonization Rate and Prolonged Shedding of Clostridium difficile in Pediatric Oncology Patients.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Dominguez, Samuel R.; Dolan, Susan A.; West, Kelly; Dantes, Raymund B.; Epson, Erin; Friedman, Deborah; Littlehorn, Cynthia A.; Arms, Lesley E.; Walton, Karen; Servetar, Ellen; Frank, Daniel N.; Kotter, Cassandra V.; Dowell, Elaine; Gould, Carolyn V.; Hilden, Joanne M.; Todd, James K.
- Source
- Clinical Infectious Diseases. Aug2014, Vol. 59 Issue 3, p401-403. 3p.
- Subject
- *TUMORS in children
*COLONIZATION
*CLOSTRIDIOIDES difficile
*PUBLIC health surveillance
*GASTROINTESTINAL diseases
*CLOSTRIDIUM diseases
*DISEASE prevalence
- Language
- ISSN
- 1058-4838
Surveillance testing for Clostridium difficile among pediatric oncology patients identified stool colonization in 29% of patients without gastrointestinal symptoms and in 55% of patients with prior C. difficile infection (CDI). A high prevalence of C. difficile colonization and diarrhea complicates the diagnosis of CDI in this population. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]