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Nosocomial Spread of Clostridium Difficile

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Alice M. Savage  and
Robert H. Alford
Alice M. Savage*
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Veterans Administration Medical Center, and Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee
Robert H. Alford
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Veterans Administration Medical Center, and Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee
*
VA Medical Center, 1310 24th Avenue, South, Nashville, TN 37203
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Abstract

Environmental transmission of Clostridium difficile, the causative agent of antibiotic-associated pseudomembranous colitis (PMC), has been supported by animal studies and implicated in spread of C. difficile among leukemic children receiving non-absorbable antibiotics. We report antibiotic-associated C. difficile-related colitis in two adults who shared a commode chair during hospitalization.

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Original Articles
Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 4 , Issue 1 , February 1983 , pp. 31 - 33
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1983

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