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Briefings on Infection Control (Single Article)

Study sheds light on C. diff's wily ways
December 2007

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If you're struggling with C. diff at your facility, you might want to consider changing your tactics based on the results of a new study published in the October 15 Clinical Infectious Diseases. That's because asymptomatic patients may be the ones spreading the organism, the study says, meaning that facilities that focus only on patients with the active disease may have limited success preventing its spread. The study, Asymptomatic Carriers Are a Potential Source for Transmission of Epidemic and Nonepidemic Clostridium Difficile Strains Among Long-Term Care Facility Residents, began in 2002, when researchers at the Louis Stokes Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center experienced a large outbreak of C. diff at their facility.

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