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Volume 30, Number 5—May 2024
Research

Identifying Contact Time Required for Secondary Transmission of Clostridioides difficile Infections by Using Real-Time Locating System

Min Hyung Kim, Jaewoong Kim, Heejin Ra, Sooyeon Jeong, Yoon Soo Park, Dongju Won, Hyukmin Lee1, and Heejung Kim1Comments to Author 
Author affiliations: Hallym University Dongtan Sacred Heart Hospital, Hwasieong, South Korea (M.H. Kim); Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea (J. Kim, D. Won, H. Lee); Yonsei University Yongin Severance Hospital, Yongin, South Korea (H. Ra, S. Jeong, Y.S. Park, H. Kim)

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Table 2

Patients manifesting secondary transmission in study identifying contact time required for secondary transmission of Clostridioides difficile infections by using real-time locating system conducted in South Korea*

Patient age, y CCI score Reason for hospitalization Ribotype Contact during diarrhea episode† Contact time, min Contact type‡ Indwelling devices
81 3 Pneumonia RT018 No 113 Group 1 Enteral tube, pleural effusion drainage
83 2 Pneumonia RT018 NA 15,840 Group 3 Enteral tube

*CCI, Charlson comorbidity index; NA, not applicable; RT018, ribotype 018. †Contact history during manifestation of diarrhea in the index patient. ‡Group 1 included patients who had direct contact with index patients. Group 3 included patients who had indirect contact with index patients via the environment.

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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