Clostridium difficile Screening for Colonization During an Outbreak Setting | Zendy

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

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Clostridium difficile Screening for Colonization During an Outbreak Setting

Author(s) -

Katherine Linsenmeyer,

William J. O’Brien,

Stephen M. Brecher,

Judith Strymish,

Alexandra Rochman,

Kamal Itani,

Kalpana Gupta

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

clinical infectious diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44

H-Index - 336

eISSN - 1537-6591

pISSN - 1058-4838

DOI - 10.1093/cid/ciy455

Subject(s) - clostridium difficile , outbreak , medicine , colonization , clostridium infections , c difficile , clostridiaceae , intensive care medicine , infection control , microbiology and biotechnology , virology , antibiotics , biology , toxin

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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