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EMERGING MICROBES & INFECTIONS
Volume 9, Issue 1, Pages 1432-1443Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/22221751.2020.1780949
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Clostridioides difficile; ribotyping; Iran; CDI; epidemiology; clinical features; PaLoc arrangement
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- Foodborne and Waterborne Diseases Research Center, Research Institute for Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran [RIGLD 992]
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Clostridioides difficileinfection (CDI) remains a major healthcare problem worldwide, however, little is known about CDI epidemiology in Iran. Between December 2004 and November 2018, 3649 stool samples were collected from patients in 69 hospitals and medical centres in Tehran and were cultured for the presence ofC. difficile; isolates were characterized by PCR ribotyping and toxin genes detection. A total of 582C. difficileisolates were obtained and the overall CDI prevalence was 15.9%; 290 (49.8%) cases were healthcare-associated (HA) and 292 (50.2%) cases were community-associated (CA). Of these, DNA of 513 isolates submitted for ribotyping. The ribotype and/or WEBRIBO type could be assessed in 366 (62.9%) isolates. The most frequent RTs were 001 (n = 75, 12.9%), 126 (n = 65, 11.2%) and 084 (n = 19, 3.3%); the toxin gene profiletcdA(+)B(+)/cdtA(+)B(+)(n = 112, 19.2%) was the most common. FifteenC. difficileisolates (2.6%) did not carry any toxin genes. There was no difference between frequently found RTs in HA-CDI and CA-CDI, except for RT 029 which was more likely to be associated with healthcare origin (12/15,p-value = 0.02). No isolate of RTs 027 or 078 was identified. Importantly, RTs 031, 038, 039, 084, 085 reported previously as RTs with an absence of toxin genes, revealed the presence of toxin genes in our study. Using Simpson's reciprocal index of diversity, we found that RT diversity decreased as the prevalence of the RT 084 increased (R = -0.78,p-value = 0.041). Different patterns in CDI epidemiology underscore the importance of local surveillance and infection control measures in Tehran healthcare settings.
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