Environmental transmission of Clostridioides difficile ribotype 027 at a long-term care facility; an outbreak investigation guided by whole genome sequencing

OBJECTIVE: This article describes a CDI outbreak in a long-term care (LTC) facility that used molecular typing techniques and whole-genome sequencing to identify widespread dissemination of the clonal strain in the environment which was successfully removed after terminal cleaning. SETTING: This stu...

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Vydáno v:Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol
Hlavní autoři: Endres, Bradley T., Dotson, Kierra M., Poblete, Kelley, McPherson, Jacob, Lancaster, Chris, Bassères, Eugénie, Memariani, Ali, Arnold, Sandi, Tupy, Shawn, Carlsen, Conner, Morehead, Bonnie, Anyatonwu, Sophia, Cook, Christa, Begum, Khurshida, Alam, M. Jahangir, Garey, Kevin W.
Médium: Artigo
Jazyk:Inglês
Vydáno: 2018
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On-line přístup:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6423542/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30253813
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ice.2018.230
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