PMID: 9188331Apr 1, 1997Paper

Clostridium difficile: a microbial enigma

Home Care Provider
R J Sharbaugh

Abstract

Nearly 150 years ago, Louis Pasteur introduced the world to the science of microbiology and to the fact that our environment contains microbes capable of causing disease. Subsequent to these discoveries, a pandemic of health care-related staphylococcal infections nearly a century later led to the recognition of hospital-associated (nosocomial) infection. Clearly such infections (nosohusial) now also afflict nursing home residents and patients who receive home health care.

References

Jan 27, 1994·The New England Journal of Medicine·C P KellyJ T LaMont
Jun 1, 1994·Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology : the Official Journal of the Society of Hospital Epidemiologists of America·J Silva

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