1124. Effects of Co-infection on the Severity Response to Treatment and Duration of Hospital Stay in Patients with Clostridium difficile Infection

摘要

BackgroundAccording to the multicenter evaluation of the FilmArray^® multiplex gastrointestinal (GI) panel for etiologic diagnosis of infectious gastroenteritis, the GI panel detected at least one potential pathogen in 53.5% of the stool specimens that were collected. Out of the positive samples, 31.5% tested positive for more than one potential pathogen. The samples that were co-infected showed that Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) was present in 53.4% of them. This lead to the idea of our project to determine whether the presence of another GI infection affects CDI outcomes in terms of severity, treatment escalation, duration of hospital stay and recurrence.