Clostridium difficile Infection, Colorado and the Northwestern United States, 2007

Abstract

To determine the incidence of Clostridium difficile infection during 2007, we examined infection in adult inpatient and outpatient members of a managed-care organization. Incidence was 14.9 C. difficile infections per 10,000 patient-years. Extrapolating this rate to US adults, we estimate that 284,875 C. difficile infections occurred during 2007.

Keywords

• Clostridium difficile
• incidence
• infection
• bacteria
• Colorado
• United States