Clinical pathology selected abstracts
August 2015—Characteristics and antibiotic use associated with short-term risk of C. difficile infection in hospital patients: Clostridium difficile infection is recognized as the leading cause of infectious nosocomial diarrhea. Since molecular testing has improved the sensitivity and specificity of C. difficile infection (CDI) diagnosis, most hospitals discourage repeating a negative test within seven days. However, there is a rare possibility that a patient may have repeat CDI testing that is positive within 14 days after an initial negative finding.