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cord-295121-4xemmaqt	Ferreira, Eliane de Oliveira	Should We Be Worried About Clostridioides difficile During the SARS-CoV2 Pandemic?	2020-09-29		.txt	text/plain	2301	117	40	The outbreak caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 and its associated symptoms, termed COVID-19 disease, originally in Wuhan, China in 2019, has rapidly become a global pandemic (Park, 2020) . Although some of those risk factors for CDI are also related to higher probability rates of mortality in severe SARS-CoV-2 infection, the limited number of CDI cases reported among COVID-19 patients is somewhat surprising. The authors emphasized that when CDI is present as a co-infection with COVID-19 and the diarrhea persists, therapy can be difficult because of the SARS-CoV-2 infection. The dearth of studies regarding secondary infections, such as Clostridioides difficile, in COVID-19 patients makes it difficult to measure the effect of the pandemic on antimicrobial stewardship programs and on long term antimicrobial resistance. In conclusion, it seems highly likely that cases of CDI are being under-reported among COVID-19 patients and the increased use of antibiotics may, in part, be responsible.	./cache/cord-295121-4xemmaqt.txt	./txt/cord-295121-4xemmaqt.txt