Clostridium difficile Screening for Colonization During an Outbreak Setting

Katherine Linsenmeyer; William O’Brien; Stephen M. Brecher; Judith Strymish; Alexandra Rochman; Kamal M.F. Itani; Kalpana Gupta

doi:https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciy455

doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciy455

Clostridium difficile Screening for Colonization During an Outbreak Setting

Katherine Linsenmeyer

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William O’Brien

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..., Kalpana Gupta

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Clinical Infectious Diseases11.80

Published: May 28, 2018

Abstract

A rapidly deployed ward-based screen and isolate initiative for Clostridium difficile carriers during an outbreak averted 5 of 10 expected hospital-acquired infections without identified harms. Each infection avoided required screening 197 and isolating 4.4 patients. Targeted C. difficile screening resulted in outbreak...

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Clostridium difficile Screening for Colonization During an Outbreak Setting

DOI

doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciy455

Published Date

May 28, 2018

Journal

Clinical Infectious Diseases

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