colonization and the frequency of subsequent treatment for infection in critically ill patients.

Objective: To determine risk factors for colonization and infection (CDI) among patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU).

Design: Retrospective observational cohort study.

Setting: Tertiary-care facility.

Universal screening for at an urban academic medical center.

We implemented universal inpatient Clostridioides difficile screening at an 800-bed hospital. Over 3 years, 2,010 of 47,048 screening tests (4.2%) were positive, with significantly higher rates of C.

Risk of infection transmission in curvilinear array echoendoscopes: results of a prospective reprocessing and culture registry.

Background And Aims: The complex design of the elevator mechanism in duodenoscopes has been recognized as a challenge for disinfection and recently implicated as a potential source of persistent bacterial contamination. Curvilinear array (CLA) echoendoscopes also have an elevator mechanism; however, there are no recommendations or data regarding the risk of persistent bacterial contamination of echoendoscopes. Here we hoped to determine the yield of microbial growth with routine bacterial surveillance cultures of reprocessed CLA echoendoscopes.