Environmental Contamination and Persistence of Clostridioides difficile in Hospital Wastewater Systems

Clostridioides difficile produces an environmentally resistant dormant spore morphotype that infected patients shed to the hospital environment. C. difficile spores persist in clinical reservoirs that are not targeted by hospital routine cleaning protocols. Transmissions and infections from these re...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Applied and environmental microbiology 2023-05, Vol.89 (5), p.e0001423-e0001423
Hauptverfasser:	Freier, Lia, Zacharias, Nicole, Gemein, Stefanie, Gebel, Jürgen, Engelhart, Steffen, Exner, Martin, Mutters, Nico T
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Agglutination Biofilms Cleaning Clinical Microbiology Clostridioides Clostridioides difficile Contamination Control rooms Cross Infection Diarrhea Ecosystem Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay Hospital wastes Hospitals Humans Latex Latex agglutination Medical wastes Patients Public and Environmental Health Microbiology Selective media Spores Spores, Bacterial Stagnant water Toilets Traps Wastewater
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