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What does "asymptomatic carriage" mean?

 
 
Reply Wed 15 May, 2013 11:30 pm



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EPIDEMIOLOGY AND RISK FACTORS
Clostridium difficile( C. difficile) is a Gram-positive, spore-forming bacterium usually spread by the fecal-oral route. It is
non-invasive and produces toxins A and B that cause disease,
ranging from asymptomatic carriage, to mild diarrhea, to
colitis, or pseudomembranous colitis. CDI is defined as the
acute onset of diarrhea with documented toxigenic C. difficileor
its toxin and no other documented cause for diarrhea ( 3 ).
Rates of CDI have been increasing since 2000, especially in the
elderly with a recent hospitalization or residing in long-term care
facility (LTCF). Carriage of C. difficileoccurs in 5 – 15 % of healthy
adults, but may be as high as 84.4 % in newborns and healthy infants,
and up to 57 % in residents in LTCF. Transmission in health-care
facilities results mostly from environmental surface contamination
and hand carriage by staffmembers and infected patients.
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Reply Thu 16 May, 2013 12:07 am
@oristarA,
Asymptomatic carriage means carrying the pathogen without symptoms. Don't know if that's necessarily good or bad, though.
oristarA
 
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Reply Thu 16 May, 2013 05:06 am
@neologist,
Excellent!
Thank you.
farmerman
 
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Reply Thu 16 May, 2013 07:34 am
@oristarA,
In US the phrase isnt used , We usually use the term "subclinical infection" to mean the same thing.
oristarA
 
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Reply Thu 16 May, 2013 07:44 am
@farmerman,
farmerman wrote:

In US the phrase isnt used , We usually use the term "subclinical infection" to mean the same thing.


Cool.
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