Potential for transmission of Clostridium difficile by asymptomatic acute care patients and long-term care facility residents with Prior C. difficile infection

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 638-639

  Jinno, Sadao ^a   Kundrapu, Sirisha ^b   Guerrero, Dubert M ^a   Jury, Lucy A ^b   Nerandzic, Michelle M ^b   Donskey, Curtis J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

^b LOUIS STOKES CLEVELAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; EMERGENCY CARE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PATIENT CARE;

AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ASYMPTOMATIC INFECTIONS; BACTERIAL SHEDDING; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; CRITICAL CARE; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, VETERANS; HUMANS; MALE; OHIO; PATIENT ISOLATION; RESIDENTIAL FACILITIES; TIME FACTORS; VANCOMYCIN;

EID: 84860653315     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/665712     Document Type: Article

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