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Patient group and sample collections. ICU patients are a subset of all hospital patients. Clostridioides difficile isolation and strain sequencing were performed on toxin-positive stool samples from all hospital patients and on all VRE swabs collected from ICU patients. Abbreviations: ICU, intensive care unit; VRE, vancomycin-resistant enterococci.
