Dipping into the Clostridium difficile pool: Are alcohol-based dispensers fomites for C difficile?

Publication date: Available online 7 June 2017
Source:American Journal of Infection Control
Author(s): James A. Hall, Ryan R. Keul, Justin D. Shanks, Robert Fader, Jon D. Herrington
The purpose of this study was to evaluate alcohol-based dispensers as potential fomites for Clostridium difficile. A convenience sample of 120 alcohol-based dispensers was evaluated for the presence of C difficile either by culture or polymerase chain reaction for C difficile toxin. The results demonstrated that C difficile was not cultured, and C difficile toxin was not detected using polymerase chain reaction; however, gram-positive rods, Clostridium perfringens, Pantoea agglomerans, coagulase-negative Staphylococcus, Peptostreptococcus, Bacillus spp, and microaerophilic Streptococcus were present within the overflow basins of the alcohol-based dispensers.



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