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Clostridium difficile screening for colonization during an outbreak setting

Clinical Infectious Diseases (2018) 67(12) 1912-1914
DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciy455
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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 mitigation.

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Linsenmeyer, K., O’Brien, W., Brecher, S. M., Strymish, J., Rochman, A., Itani, K., & Gupta, K. (2018). Clostridium difficile screening for colonization during an outbreak setting. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 67(12), 1912–1914. https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciy455

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