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Control of nosocomial Clostridium difficile transmission in bone marrow transplant patients
1Section of Infectious Diseases, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston 77030, USA.
Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
|March 30, 2000
Abstract:
This is a report of six cases of Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea (CDAD) that occurred among cancer patients undergoing bone marrow transplantation in a tertiary-care cancer hospital. Specific infection control measures that were taken to minimize the nosocomial spread of CDAD also are discussed.