ICAAC: Hospital Surfaces Major Source of C. difficile (CME/CE)

Courtesy MedPage Today Infectious Disease  Tue, 09/15/2009 - 11:54

SAN FRANCISCO (MedPage Today) -- Healthcare workers are just as likely to pick up Clostridium difficile spores from bed rails and other surfaces around a hospital room as from touching an infected patient's skin, researchers found.


 

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