Clostridium difficile diarrhoea: a highly infectious organism.
This paper describes an outbreak of Clostridium difficile diarrhoea in a ward for the elderly in a 550-bedded District General Hospital. The measures taken to contain it and clinical features, previously undescribed, are highlighted.
D000368:Aged; D003013:Clostridium / Q000472:pathogenicity; D003428:Cross Infection / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000635:transmission; D003967:Diarrhea / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000635:transmission; D004761:Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000635:transmission; D005243:Feces / Q000382:microbiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012306:Risk