TY - JOUR AU - Hirshon, Jon Mark AU - Thompson, Angela D. AU - Limbago, Brandi AU - McDonald, L. Clifford AU - Bonkosky, Michelle AU - Heimer, Robert AU - Meek, James AU - Mai, Volker AU - Braden, Christopher T1 - Clostridium difficile Infection in Outpatients, Maryland and Connecticut, USA, 2002–2007 T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2011 VL - 17 IS - 10 SP - 1946 SN - 1080-6059 AB - Clostridium difficile, the most commonly recognized diarrheagenic pathogen among hospitalized persons, can cause outpatient diarrhea. Of 1,091 outpatients with diarrhea, we found 43 (3.9%) who were positive for C. difficile toxin. Only 7 had no recognized risk factors, and 3 had neither risk factors nor co-infection with another enteric pathogen. KW - KW - Clostridium difficile KW - diarrhea KW - outpatient KW - enteric KW - pathogen KW - bacteria KW - Maryland KW - Connecticut KW - United States KW - dispatch DO - 10.3201/eid1710.110069 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/17/10/11-0069_article ER - End of Reference