Affiliation:
1. Duke University School of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Durham, North Carolina, USA
2. Duke Infection Control Outreach Network, Durham, North Carolina, USA
3. Division of Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Abstract
Abstract
Background
Shedding of Clostridioides difficile spores from infected individuals contaminates the hospital environment and contributes to infection transmission. We assessed whether antibiotic selection affects C. difficile shedding and contamination of the hospital environment.
Methods
In this prospective, unblinded, randomized controlled trial of hospitalized adults with C. difficile infection, patients were randomized 1:1:1 to receive fidaxomicin, oral vancomycin, or metronidazole. The primary outcome was change in environmental contamination rate during treatment. Secondary outcomes included stool shedding, total burden of contamination, and molecular relatedness of stool versus environmental C. difficile isolates.
Results
Of 33 patients enrolled, 31 (94%) completed the study. Fidaxomicin (−0.36 log10 colony-forming units [CFUs]/d [95% confidence interval (CI), −.52 to −.19]; P < .01) and vancomycin (−0.17 log10 CFUs/d [−.34 to −.01]; P = .05) were associated with more rapid decline in C. difficile shedding than metronidazole (−0.01 log10 CFUs/d [95% CI, −.10 to .08). Both vancomycin (6.3% [95% CI, 4.7–8.3) and fidaxomicin (13.1% [10.7–15.9]) were associated with lower rates of environmental contamination than metronidazole (21.4% [18.0–25.2]). With specific modeling of within-subject change over time, fidaxomicin (adjusted odds ratio, 0.83 [95% CI, .70–.99]; P = .04) was associated with more rapid decline in environmental contamination than vancomycin or metronidazole. Overall, 207 of 233 environmental C. difficile isolates (88.8%) matched patient stool isolates by ribotyping, without significant difference by treatment.
Conclusions
Fidaxomicin, and to a lesser extent vancomycin, reduces C. difficile shedding and contamination of the hospital environment relative to metronidazole. Treatment choice may play a role in reducing healthcare-associated C. difficile transmission.
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Subject
Infectious Diseases,Microbiology (medical)
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