title: Clostridium difficile: a microbial enigma.
abstract: Nearly 150 years ago, Louis Pasteur introduced the world to the science of microbiology and to the fact that our environment contains microbes capable of causing disease. Subsequent to these discoveries, a pandemic of health care-related staphylococcal infections nearly a century later led to the recognition of hospital-associated (nosocomial) infection. Clearly such infections (nosohusial) now also afflict nursing home residents and patients who receive home health care.
authors.affiliation: drbob6@oel.com
authors.forename: R J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Sharbaugh
mesh_terms: D016360:Clostridioides difficile; D003428:Cross Infection / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000517:prevention & control; D004761:Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000517:prevention & control; D006801:Humans; D017053:Infection Control