Volume 28, Number 5—May 2022
Research
Risk for Asymptomatic Household Transmission of Clostridioides difficile Infection Associated with Recently Hospitalized Family Members
Aaron C. Miller
, Alan T. Arakkal, Daniel K. Sewell, Alberto M. Segre, Sriram V. Pemmaraju, Philip M. Polgreen, and CDC MInD-Healthcare Group
, Alan T. Arakkal, Daniel K. Sewell, Alberto M. Segre, Sriram V. Pemmaraju, Philip M. Polgreen, and CDC MInD-Healthcare Group
Table 3
Number of cases and enrollee-months in each exposure bin for total days of household-hospitalization using a 60-day exposure window in study of asymptomatic Clostridioides difficile transmission among household members, United States*
| No. days family members spent hospitalized | 60-day exposure window |
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|---|---|---|---|
| No. CDI cases | Total enrollment months | Incidence† | |
| 0 | 160,267 | 4,980,648,694 | 3.22 |
| 1–3 | 2,336 | 52,798,719 | 4.42 |
| 4–10 | 1,519 | 27,457,461 | 5.53 |
| 11–20 | 315 | 4,338,929 | 7.26 |
| 21–30 | 107 | 1,317,610 | 8.12 |
| >30 | 106 | 1,214,792 | 8.73 |
*CDI, Clostridioides difficile infection. †Cases per 100,000 enrollment months.
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