Increasing contribution of dental antibiotic prescribing to community-acquired Clostridioides difficile infection: a 9-year retrospective cohort study.

Among patients with community-acquired *Clostridioides difficile* infection, those prescribed antibiotics by dentists increased from 13% to 31% over nine years, with dentists more frequently prescribing clindamycin despite patients having fewer traditional risk factors for infection.

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