Brazilian researchers at two tertiary care hospitals found 17% of a group of 92 adult ICU patients were colonized with Clostridioides difficile, but colonization was not associated with diarrhea or death.
Following up on previous research showing that 11.8% of hospitalized patients with diarrhea in Brazil had C. difficile infection (CDI), lead investigator Marcio Fernando Spagnól, of the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, in Porto Alegre, Brazil, and co-investigators set out