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Volume 22, Number 10—October 2016
Research

Community- and Healthcare-Associated Clostridium difficile Infections, Finland, 2008−20131

Saara M. KotilaComments to Author , Silja Mentula, Jukka Ollgren, Anni Virolainen-Julkunen, and Outi Lyytikäinen
Author affiliations: National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland

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Table 1

Incidence of community-associated and healthcare-associated Clostridium difficile infections in patients, by age and sex, Finland, 2008–2013*

Patientage, y Community-associated
Healthcare-associated
Female sex
Male sex
Female sex
Male sex
No. No. person-years Rate No. No. person-years Rate No. No. person-years Rate No. No. person-years Rate
1–14 252 2,612,610 9.6 248 2,729,947 9.1 126 2,612,610 4.8 152 2,729,947 5.6
15–44 1,551 5,881,383 26.4 886 6,163,161 14.4 578 5,881,383 9.8 533 6,163,161 8.6
45–64 1,655 4,593,089 36.0 1,188 4,554,108 26.1 1,524 4,593,089 33.2 2,047 4,554,108 44.9
65–74 950 1,682,708 56.5 755 1,472,378 51.3 1,917 1,682,708 113.9 2,232 1,472,378 151.6
75–84 1,195 1,176,883 101.5 680 767,551 88.6 4,325 1,176,883 367.5 3,140 767,551 409.1
>84 944 510,899 184.8 339 187,511 180.8 4,224 510,899 826.8 1,550 187,511 826.6
All 6,547 16,457,572 39.8 4,096 15,874,656 25.8 12,694 16,457,572 77.1 9,654 15,874,656 60.8

*Rate is the average annualized incidence rate (episodes/100,000 population).

Main Article

1Preliminary results from this study were presented as a poster at the 3rd International Conference on Prevention and Infection Control; June 16−19, 2015; Geneva, Switzerland.

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