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Have close contact with someone who has been diagnosed with C. diff. Hospitals try to prevent C diff. among patients in several ways. They impose scrupulous hand-washing requirements among staff ...
In the past, Clostridium difficile-associated disease (CDAD) was thought of mainly as a nosocomial disease associated with the use of broad-spectrum antibiotics, but its epidemiology seems to be ...
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The bacterium Clostridioides difficile is one of the most common infections picked up in hospitals, and, even once it’s cleared from the body, patients have a 1 in 6 chance of catching it again ...