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Investigation of community carriage rates of Clostridium difficile and Hungatella hathewayi in healthy volunteers from four regions of England.
- Source :
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The Journal of hospital infection [J Hosp Infect] 2017 Oct; Vol. 97 (2), pp. 153-155. Date of Electronic Publication: 2017 May 23. - Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- Faecal samples from 1365 healthy asymptomatic volunteers from four regions in England were screened for the presence of Clostridium difficile between December 2013 and July 2014. The carriage rate of C. difficile in healthy patients was 0.5%, which is lower than reported previously. This study demonstrates that the true community reservoir of C. difficile in the healthy UK population is very low and is, therefore, unlikely to be a reservoir for infections diagnosed in the hospital setting.<br /> (Crown Copyright © 2017. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.)
- Subjects :
- Adult
Clostridioides difficile isolation & purification
Clostridium Infections diagnosis
England epidemiology
Healthy Volunteers
Humans
Polymerase Chain Reaction
State Medicine
Young Adult
Carrier State microbiology
Clostridium isolation & purification
Clostridium Infections epidemiology
Feces microbiology
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1532-2939
- Volume :
- 97
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- The Journal of hospital infection
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 28549779
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2017.05.014