Antimicrobial Stewardship and Environmental Decontamination for the Control of Clostridium difficile Transmission in Healthcare Settings
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Epidemiological model for Clostridium difficile transmission in healthcare settings.
OBJECTIVE Recent outbreaks of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) have been difficult to control, and data indicate that the importance of different sources of transmission may have changed. Our objectives were to evaluate the contributions of asymptomatic and symptomatic C. difficile carriers to new colonizations and to determine the most important epidemiological factors influencing C. diff...
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عنوان ژورنال: Bulletin of Mathematical Biology
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0092-8240,1522-9602
DOI: 10.1007/s11538-016-0224-7