ArticleJournal of infection prevention2015
Report of an outbreak of
Article in Journal of infection prevention, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.
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- Clostridioides difficile infection in neurosurgical patients in a national centre over 10 years: less common but associated with longer hospital stays.Acta neurochirurgica · 2023Article
- Clostridioides (Formerly Clostridium) difficile Infection During Hospitalization Increases the Likelihood of Nonhome Patient Discharge.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2019Article
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Abstract
backgroundWe describe an outbreak of OUTBREAK INVESTIGATION: The outbreak was investigated by creating a timeline of all toxin positive patients with root cause analysis, supplemented with ribotyping results, hand hygiene and environmental audits. There were five cases of CDI, three caused by ribotype 053 indicating transmission. INFECTION PREVENTION MEASURES: These included a short period of ward closure to allow enhanced cleaning, including use of vaporised hydrogen peroxide, isolation of infected patients, reinforcement of hand hygiene, education of all staff on DISCUSSION: The patients with ribotype 053 all had long inpatient stays and had required several courses of broad-spectrum antibiotics for aspiration pneumonia. They also required enteral feeding, which can cause diarrhoea, and during long inpatient stays they had multiple toxin negative faecal samples making clinical diagnosis of CDI difficult. Hence they were not isolated promptly, leading to transmission. This is the first reported outbreak of
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