Environmental Contamination in Households of Patients with Recurrent Clostridium difficile Infection.

ABSTRACT: Recurrent Clostridium difficile infection (R-CDI) is common and difficult to treat, potentially necessitating fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT). Although C. difficilespores persist in the hospital environment and cause infection, little is known about their potential presence or importance in the household environment. Households of R-CDI subjects in the peri-FMT period and of geographically matched and age-matched controls were analyzed for the presence ofC. difficile Household environmental surfaces and fecal samples from humans and pets in the household were examined. Households of post-FMT subjects were also examined (environmental surfaces only). Participants were surveyed regarding their personal history and household cleaning habits. Species identity and molecular characteristi

SUBMITTER: Shaughnessy MK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4836413 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature