Researchers found the incidence of C. difficile infection in children between 2004 and 2009 was more than 12 times higher than the rate of infection from 1991 to 1997. Furthermore, 75 percent of cases were “community-acquired,” meaning the patients had not been hospitalized for at least four weeks prior to contracting C. difficile, according to the release.
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