Emerging Infectious Diseases (Apr 2010)

Hypervirulent Clostridium difficile Strains in Hospitalized Patients, Canada

  • Michael R. Mulvey,
  • David A. Boyd,
  • Denise Gravel,
  • Jim Hutchinson,
  • Sharon Kelly,
  • Allison McGeer,
  • Dorothy Moore,
  • Andrew Simor,
  • Kathryn N. Suh,
  • Geoff Taylor,
  • J. Scott Weese,
  • Mark A. Miller

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1604.091152
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 16, no. 4
pp. 678 – 681

Abstract

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To determine the incidence rate of infections with North American pulsed-field types 7 and 8 (NAP7/NAP8) strains of Clostrodium difficile, ribotype 078, and toxinotype V strains, we examined data collected for the Canadian Nosocomial Infections Surveillance Program (CNISP) CDI surveillance project during 2004–2008. Incidence of human infections increased from 0.5% in 2004/2005 to 1.6% in 2008.

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