甲硝唑
医学微生物学
医学
内科学
重症监护室
梭菌纲
多位点序列分型
流行病学
感染控制
艰难梭菌毒素A
殖民地化
分子流行病学
基因型
艰难梭菌
寄生虫学
抗生素
微生物学
重症监护医学
生物
病毒学
基因
病理
生物化学
作者
Yingchao Cui,Danfeng Dong,Lihua Zhang,Daosheng Wang,Cen Jiang,Qi Ni,Chen Wang,Enqiang Mao,Yibing Peng
标识
DOI:10.1186/s12879-019-4603-1
摘要
Clostridioides difficile is considered the main pathogen responsible for hospital-acquired infections. This prospective study determined the prevalence, molecular epidemiological characteristics, and risk factors for C. difficile infection (CDI) and C. difficile colonization (CDC) among patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) of a large-scale tertiary hospital in China, with the aim of providing strategies for efficient CDI and CDC prevention and control.Stool samples were collected and anaerobically cultured for C. difficile detection. The identified isolates were examined for toxin genes and subjected to multilocus sequence typing. Patients were classified into CDI, CDC, and control groups, and their medical records were analyzed to determine the risk factors for CDI and CDC.Of the 800 patients included in the study, 33 (4.12%) and 25 (3.12%) were identified to have CDI and CDC, respectively. Associations with CDI were found for fever (OR = 13.993), metabolic disorder (OR = 7.972), and treatment with fluoroquinolone (OR = 42.696) or combined antibiotics (OR = 2.856). CDC patients were characterized by prolonged hospital stay (OR = 1.137), increased number of comorbidities (OR = 36.509), respiratory diseases (OR = 0.043), and treatment with vancomycin (OR = 18.168). Notably, treatment with metronidazole was found to be a protective factor in both groups (CDI: OR = 0.042; CDC: OR = 0.013). Eighteen sequence types (STs) were identified. In the CDI group, the isolated strains were predominantly toxin A and toxin B positive (A + B+) and the epidemic clone was genotype ST2. In the CDC group, the dominant strains were A + B+ and the epidemic clone was ST81.The prevalences of CDC and CDI in our ICU were relatively high, suggesting the importance of routine screening for acquisition of C. difficile. Future prevention and treatment strategies for CDC and CDI should consider hospital stay, enteral nutrition, underlying comorbidities, and use of combined antibiotics. Moreover, metronidazole may be a protective factor for both CDI and CDC, and could be used empirically.
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