Volume 16, Number 2—February 2010
CME ACTIVITY - Research
Risk Factors for and Estimated Incidence of Community-associated Clostridium difficile Infection, North Carolina, USA1
Preeta K. Kutty, Christopher W. Woods, Arlene C. Sena, Stephen R. Benoit, Susanna Naggie, Joyce Frederick, Sharon Evans, Jeffery Engel, and L. Clifford McDonald
Table 1
Estimated incidence of community-associated Clostridium difficile infection per 100,000 persons among VA and Durham County populations, North Carolina, USA, 2005*
| Population | Age group, y, no. cases |
Overall | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18–44 | 45–64 | >65 | ||
| VA | ||||
| M |
14.7 |
28.5† |
15.9 |
20.8 |
| Durham County | ||||
| M | 11.0 | 56.6† | 57.5 | 28.4 |
| F |
21.9 |
70.4 |
204.6 |
61.9‡ |
| Overall | 16.5 | 63.9 | 146.4 | 46.0 |
*VA, Veterans Affairs.
†p<0.05 when compared with age groups 18–44 and >65 y combined.
‡p<0.005 when compared with men from Durham County.
1Presented in part at the 44th Annual Meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, October 12–15, 2006.
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