Fecal Clostridium difficile carriage among medical housestaff.
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.
Underwood-Memorial Hospital, Woodbury, NJ 08096.
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RS
Cohen
A J
AJ
DiMarino
M L
ML
Allen
D002353:Carrier State; D016360:Clostridioides difficile / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D003967:Diarrhea / Q000382:microbiology; D004761:Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous / Q000635:transmission; D005243:Feces / Q000382:microbiology*; D006801:Humans; D008505:Medical Staff, Hospital