Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Clostridioides difficile Infection Rates and Risk Factors in Maryland

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2023-11-27

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Marceaux-Galli, Kaytlynn, Rebecca Perlmutter, David Blythe, and Lucy Wilson. “694. Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Clostridioides Difficile Infection Rates and Risk Factors in Maryland.” Open Forum Infectious Diseases 10, no. Supplement_2 (December 1, 2023): ofad500.756. https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofad500.756.

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While many Healthcare Associated Infection (HAI) rates increased during the pandemic, inpatient C. difficile infection (CDI) rates declined. We compared pre-pandemic (2018-2019) to interpandemic (2020-2021) data, using Maryland’s population-based surveillance data collected through the Emerging Infections Program’s CDI HAIC project, to quantify the impact of COVID-19 on decreases in CDI within different epidemiologic classes (epi classes): HCFO, CO-HCFA, CA (Tables 1 & 2).