Environmental control to reduce transmission of Clostridium difficile

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 995-1000

  Mayfield, Jennie L ^a   Leet, Terry ^b   Miller, James ^c   Mundy, Linda M ^c  

^a BARNES JEWISH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISINFECTANT AGENT; HYPOCHLORITE; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSLOCATION; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; DIARRHEA; DISINFECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CROSS INFECTION; DISINFECTANTS; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOCHLOROUS ACID; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MISSOURI; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 0034452451     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/318149     Document Type: Article

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