Efficacy of cleaning products for C difficile: Environmental strategies to reduce the spread of Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea in geriatric rehabilitation

Canadian Family Physician

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 417-423

  MacLeod Glover, Nora ^a   Sadowski, Cheryl ^b  

^a BRUYÈRE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 PROPANOL; ALCOHOL; ANIONIC SURFACTANT; BLEACHING AGENT; CHLORINE DIOXIDE; DOMESTIC CHEMICAL; GLUTARALDEHYDE; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; HYPOCHLORITE; NITRITE; NONIONIC SURFACTANT; PERACETIC ACID; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE;

BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HAND WASHING; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL HYGIENE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTIOUS DIARRHEA; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SPOROGENESIS;

AGED; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; DETERGENTS; DIARRHEA; DISINFECTION; HOSPITAL UNITS; HOUSEKEEPING; HOUSEKEEPING, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY;

EID: 77952979219     PISSN: 0008350X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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