Assessing the effect of patient screening and isolation on curtailing Clostridium difficile infection in hospital settings

Assessing the effect of patient screening and isolation on curtailing Clostridium difficile infection in hospital settings

Abstract Background Patient screening at the time of hospital admission is not recommended as a routine practice, but may be an important strategy for containment of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) in hospital settings. We sought to investigate the effect of patient screening in the presence o...

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Main Authors: Sara Maghdoori, Seyed M. Moghadas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-06-01
Series:BMC Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
Clostridium difficile
Colonization
Transmission dynamics
Screening
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12879-017-2494-6

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