Screening ofClostridioides difficilecarriers in an urban academic medical center: Understanding implications of disease

Objective: Efforts to reduce Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) have targeted transmission from patients with symptomatic C. difficile . However, many patients with the C. difficile organism are carriers without symptoms who may serve as reservoirs for spread of infection and may be at risk for progression to symptomatic C. difficile . To estimate the prevalence of C. difficile carriage and determine the risk and speed of progression to...