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Substantial reduction of healthcare facility-onset Clostridioides difficile infection (HO-CDI) rates after conversion of a hospital for exclusive treatment of COVID-19 patients

Healthcare facility-onset Clostridioides difficile infection rates substantially dropped in a Mexican hospital after its conversion to a full COVID-19 setting, despite heavy contamination of the environment the previous year. Better adherence to hand hygiene and contact precautions may help explain...

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Autores principales: Ochoa-Hein, Eric, Rajme-López, Sandra, Rodríguez-Aldama, Juan Carlos, Huertas-Jiménez, Martha Asunción, Chávez-Ríos, Alma Rosa, de Paz-García, Roxana, Haro-Osnaya, Anabel, González-Colín, Karla Karina, González-González, Ricardo, González-Lara, María Fernanda, Ponce-de-León, Alfredo, Galindo-Fraga, Arturo
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7836607/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33352250
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2020.12.008
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author Ochoa-Hein, Eric
Rajme-López, Sandra
Rodríguez-Aldama, Juan Carlos
Huertas-Jiménez, Martha Asunción
Chávez-Ríos, Alma Rosa
de Paz-García, Roxana
Haro-Osnaya, Anabel
González-Colín, Karla Karina
González-González, Ricardo
González-Lara, María Fernanda
Ponce-de-León, Alfredo
Galindo-Fraga, Arturo
author_facet Ochoa-Hein, Eric
Rajme-López, Sandra
Rodríguez-Aldama, Juan Carlos
Huertas-Jiménez, Martha Asunción
Chávez-Ríos, Alma Rosa
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Haro-Osnaya, Anabel
González-Colín, Karla Karina
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spelling pubmed-78366072021-01-26 Substantial reduction of healthcare facility-onset Clostridioides difficile infection (HO-CDI) rates after conversion of a hospital for exclusive treatment of COVID-19 patients Ochoa-Hein, Eric Rajme-López, Sandra Rodríguez-Aldama, Juan Carlos Huertas-Jiménez, Martha Asunción Chávez-Ríos, Alma Rosa de Paz-García, Roxana Haro-Osnaya, Anabel González-Colín, Karla Karina González-González, Ricardo González-Lara, María Fernanda Ponce-de-León, Alfredo Galindo-Fraga, Arturo Am J Infect Control Brief Report Healthcare facility-onset Clostridioides difficile infection rates substantially dropped in a Mexican hospital after its conversion to a full COVID-19 setting, despite heavy contamination of the environment the previous year. Better adherence to hand hygiene and contact precautions may help explain this finding. Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2021-07 2020-12-19 /pmc/articles/PMC7836607/ /pubmed/33352250 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2020.12.008 Text en © 2020 Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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Ochoa-Hein, Eric
Rajme-López, Sandra
Rodríguez-Aldama, Juan Carlos
Huertas-Jiménez, Martha Asunción
Chávez-Ríos, Alma Rosa
de Paz-García, Roxana
Haro-Osnaya, Anabel
González-Colín, Karla Karina
González-González, Ricardo
González-Lara, María Fernanda
Ponce-de-León, Alfredo
Galindo-Fraga, Arturo
Substantial reduction of healthcare facility-onset Clostridioides difficile infection (HO-CDI) rates after conversion of a hospital for exclusive treatment of COVID-19 patients
title Substantial reduction of healthcare facility-onset Clostridioides difficile infection (HO-CDI) rates after conversion of a hospital for exclusive treatment of COVID-19 patients
title_full Substantial reduction of healthcare facility-onset Clostridioides difficile infection (HO-CDI) rates after conversion of a hospital for exclusive treatment of COVID-19 patients
title_fullStr Substantial reduction of healthcare facility-onset Clostridioides difficile infection (HO-CDI) rates after conversion of a hospital for exclusive treatment of COVID-19 patients
title_full_unstemmed Substantial reduction of healthcare facility-onset Clostridioides difficile infection (HO-CDI) rates after conversion of a hospital for exclusive treatment of COVID-19 patients
title_short Substantial reduction of healthcare facility-onset Clostridioides difficile infection (HO-CDI) rates after conversion of a hospital for exclusive treatment of COVID-19 patients
title_sort substantial reduction of healthcare facility-onset clostridioides difficile infection (ho-cdi) rates after conversion of a hospital for exclusive treatment of covid-19 patients
topic Brief Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7836607/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33352250
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2020.12.008
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