Mayo research: Intervention drops hospital infection rate by 1/3

Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) is the one of the leading pathogens causing hospital-acquired infection in the United States. It may cause diarrhoea, colitis, sepsis and lead to prolonged hospitalisation and death. Mayo Clinic researchers say they've found a way to reduce the acquisition of this infection and drop its frequency to a fraction of what it had been...

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