The health-care facility environment is rarely implicated in disease transmission, except
among patients who are immunocompromised. Nonetheless, inadvertent exposures to …

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE is the most important cause of nosocomial diarrhea in adults.
Illness may range from mild watery diarrhea to life-threatening colitis. An antecedent …

The pathogenicity locus (PaLoc) of Clostridium difficile contains toxin A and B genes and
three accessory genes, including tcdD and tcdC, which are supposed to code for the positive …

Recent data demonstrate that the contaminated hospital surface environment plays a key
role in the transmission of Clostridium difficile. Enhanced environmental cleaning of rooms …

Background and aims: Tube feeding is regarded as a risk factor for Clostridium difficile‐
associated diarrhoea. Recently, we reported that C. difficile toxin was frequently found in …

Contamination of the surface environment in hospital rooms plays an important role in the
transmission of several key healthcare-associated pathogens including Clostridium difficile …

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a two-step algorithm for the
detection of Clostridium difficile infection. Setting and Design: A two-step testing algorithm …

Background Hospital transmission of Clostridium difficile is fostered by contamination of
surfaces and medical equipment with spores highly resistant to disinfectants and regular …

A preliminary study was conducted to see the prevalence of Clostridium difficile in patients
and their environment in a tertiary care hospital. Seventy-nine fecal specimens from …

The objective of this study was to describe a pseudo-outbreak of C. difficile in a hospital,
following a change in the method used to detect the toxin. In February 2002, there were two …