Pediatric C. difficile Infections with Dietary and Strain Data

Infant health data links amino acid-based formula feeding to increased risk of Clostridioides difficile-associated disease in children under two years old. The dataset contains dietary information, clinical characteristics, strain profiles, and antimicrobial resistance analysis for C. difficile strains isolated from infants with CDAD. It was authored by Liqian Wang and last updated in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze the association between amino acid-based formula feeding and CDAD risk using dietary information and clinical characteristics.
• Classify C. difficile strains by their antimicrobial resistance profiles and multilocus sequence typing (MLST) data.
• Model the relationship between specific strain profiles and patient clinical outcomes documented in the dataset.

Strengths

• Data includes multiple analysis dimensions: dietary, clinical, strain profiles, and antimicrobial resistance.
• Dataset is published under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse.

Limitations

• The specific sample size, number of rows, and column details are unknown.
• Geographic origin of the infant patient population is not specified.

Provenance

Source

Liqian Wang via figshare.

Collection Method

Analysis of C. difficile strains isolated from infants with CDAD.

Freshness

Last updated in April 2026.