Clostridium difficile Mixed Infection and Reinfection
Eyre DW., Walker AS., Griffiths D., Wilcox MH., Wyllie DH., Dingle KE., Crook DW., Peto TEA.
ABSTRACTIsolates from consecutiveClostridium difficileinfection (CDI) fecal samples underwent multilocus sequence typing. Potential reinfections with different genotypes were identified in 88/560 (16%) sample pairs taken 1 to 1,414 days (median, 24; interquartile range [IQR], 1 to 52 days) apart; odds of reinfection increased by 58% for every doubling of time between samples. Of 109 sample pairs taken on the same day, 3 (3%) had different genotypes. Considering samples 0 to 7 days apart as the same CDI, 7% of cases had mixed infections with >1 genotype.