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Journal Article
Environmental approaches to controlling Clostridioides difficile infection in healthcare settings
2023
Overview
As today’s most prevalent and costly healthcare-associated infection, hospital-onset
Clostridioides difficile
infection (HO-CDI) represents a major threat to patient safety world-wide. This review will discuss how new insights into the epidemiology of CDI have quantified the prevalence of
C. difficile
(CD) spore contamination of the patient-zone as well as the role of asymptomatically colonized patients who unavoidable contaminate their near and distant environments with resilient spores. Clarification of the epidemiology of CD in parallel with the development of a new generation of sporicidal agents which can be used on a daily basis without damaging surfaces, equipment, or the environment, led to the research discussed in this review. These advances underscore the potential for significantly mitigating HO-CDI when combined with ongoing programs for optimizing the thoroughness of cleaning as well as disinfection. The consequence of this paradigm-shift in environmental hygiene practice, particularly when combined with advances in hand hygiene practice, has the potential for significantly improving patient safety in hospitals globally by mitigating the acquisition of CD spores and, quite plausibly, other environmentally transmitted healthcare-associated pathogens.
Publisher
BioMed Central,BioMed Central Ltd,Springer Nature B.V,BMC
Subject
/ Biomedical and Life Sciences
/ Clean Hospitals: Healthcare Environmental Hygiene and Patient Safety
/ COVID-19
/ Disinfection & disinfectants
/ Healthcare-associated infections
/ Hospital onset Clostridioides difficile infection prevention
/ Hygiene
/ Optimized cleaning performance
/ Patients
/ Review
/ Trends
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