Fecal Clostridium difficile carriage among medical housestaff.

R S, Cohen; A J, DiMarino; M L, Allen

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Fecal Clostridium difficile carriage among medical housestaff.

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 09 Aug 1994 English Journal:New Jersey medicine : the journal of the Medical Society of New Jersey, volume 91 (issn: 0885-842X,

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Authors: R S, Cohen; A J, DiMarino; M L, Allen;

pmid: 8028813

Fecal Clostridium difficile carriage among medical housestaff.

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Abstract

Housestaff, physician assistants, and hospitalized patients at a teaching hospital were tested for fecal carriage of Clostridium difficile. The test results showed that fecal carriage of C. difficile may not be important in the epidemiology of hospital-acquired diarrhea.

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Inspira Medical Center Woodbury
United States

Keywords

Diarrhea, Feces, Clostridioides difficile, Carrier State, Medical Staff, Hospital, Humans, Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous

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