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While Clostridioides difficile infection is being increasingly recognized in the community setting, how patients acquire this organism is not always clear. Noting that asymptomatic carriers of this organism can shed it into the environment, researchers investigated whether patients recently discharged from the hospital without a diagnosis of C. difficile infection (CDI) might serve as a source of CDI in their household family members. In an analysis of U.S. Commercial Claims and Medicare data on >195 million individuals from 2001 to 2017, they compared monthly incidence of CDI in households where a family member had been hospitalized and discharged home within 60 days to that in households without a recently hospitalized member.
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