Contamination of the Hospital Environment From Potential Clostridium difficile Excretors Without Active Infection.
Jason S Biswas;
Amita Patel;
Jonathan A Otter;
Esther van Kleef;
Simon D Goldenberg;
(2015)
Contamination of the Hospital Environment From Potential Clostridium difficile Excretors Without Active Infection.
Infection control and hospital epidemiology, 36 (8).
pp. 975-977.
ISSN 0899-823X
DOI: 10.1017/ice.2015.79
Clostridium difficile was recovered from 33 (34%) of 98 rooms of patients who were excretors compared with 36 (49%) of 73 rooms of patients with active infection. Not all laboratory algorithms can distinguish between these 2 groups, yet both may be a significant source for ongoing transmission.
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