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Environmental Contamination in Households of Patients with Recurrent Clostridium difficile Infection.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 May 2016
Shaughnessy Megan K, Bobr Aleh, Kuskowski Michael A, Johnston Brian D, Sadowsky Michael J, Khoruts Alexander, Johnson James R
Abstract excerpt
Recurrent Clostridium difficile infection (R-CDI) is common and difficult to treat, potentially necessitating fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT). Although C. difficilespores persist in the hospital environment and cause infection, little is known about their potential presence or importance in the household environment. Households of R-CDI subjects in the peri-FMT period and of geographically matched and...
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