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Volume 14, Number 6—June 2008
Dispatch

Increase in Adult Clostridium difficile–related Hospitalizations and Case-Fatality Rate, United States, 2000–2005

Marya D. Zilberberg*†Comments to Author , Andrew F. Shorr‡, and Marin H. Kollef§
Author affiliations: *University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA; †EviMed Research Group, LLC, Goshen, Massachusetts, USA; ‡Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC, USA§Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA;

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Absolute numbers of adult hospitalizations with Clostridium difficile, by age group, United States, 2000–2005

Hospitalizations 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005
18–44 y 14,738 15,001 18,747 19,393 22,168 25,662
45–64 y 28,280 29,527 39,421 43,290 50,898 61,757
65–84 y 69,018 74,010 98,148 105,404 122,875 147,675
>85 y
 22,325
 25,194
 31,899
 35,363
 43,341
 56,209
All adult 134,361 143,732 188,215 203,450 239,282 291,303

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