… spores can survive in the environment for months or years, and environmental contamination
has been linked to the spread of C difficile infection in healthcare settings.17 UK national …

… , and their findings cannot easily be generalized to other healthcare institutions.7, 8 … on
hospital interventions to prevent and control healthcare-associated infections, including CDI, …

Clostridium difficile is a ubiquitous spore-forming bacterium which causes toxin-mediated
diarrhoea and colitis in people whose gut microflora has been depleted by antimicrobial use, …

… Clostridium difficile is a significant healthcare-associated pathogen and the major cause of
antibiotic-associated diarrhea. The incidence and severity of C… difficile in healthcare facilities …

… Clostridium difficile infections are the leading cause of health care–associated infectious
diarrhea. The scope of the disease ranges from asymptomatic carriers to severe, or fulminant, …

… Clinical practice guidelines for Clostridium difficile infection in adults: 2010 update by the
Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) and the Infectious Diseases Society of …

… There have been dramatic changes in the epidemiology of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI), …
Role of the environment in the transmission of Clostridium difficile in health care facilities. …

… Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is the leading cause of infectious nosocomial
diarrhoea but the economic costs of CDI on healthcare systems in the US remain uncertain. …

… for Clostridium difficile infection (CDI). In 1974, pseudomembranous colitis was identified in
patients who had received clindamycin, 2 and 4 years later Bartlett et al 3 identified toxigenic …

… A dramatic increase in infections associated with Clostridium difficile has occurred over
the … for pseudomembranous colitis, 1 C. difficile has become the leading cause of health-care-…