Contamination of the Hospital Environment from Potential Clostridium difficile Excretors Without Active Infection

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 975-977

  Biswas, Jason S ^a   Patel, Amita ^a   Otter, Jonathan A ^a   Van Kleef, Esther ^b,c   Goldenberg, Simon D ^a  

^a GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEFOXITIN; CREATININE; CYCLOSERINE; LYSOZYME; TAUROCHOLIC ACID; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ENTEROTOXIN; TCDA PROTEIN, CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; TOXB PROTEIN, CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL LOAD; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; CLEANING; CLINICAL OUTCOME; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIQUID FECES; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEDICAL DEVICE; PEPTOCLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; FECES; FOMITE; GENETICS; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HETEROZYGOTE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MEDICAL DEVICE CONTAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS COLITIS; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CARRIER STATE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; DIARRHEA; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; ENTEROTOXINS; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; FECES; FEMALE; FOMITES; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENTS' ROOMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84988847766     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: 15596834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/ice.2015.79     Document Type: Article

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