Combating the C. diff 'terrorists' on the loose in hospitals

Thursday, May 19, 2011 - 13:30 in Health & Medicine

Just like intelligence agents watching for the real terrorists threatening to attack, monitoring health-care worker adherence to mandatory hand-washing protocols via hand-washing squads in hospitals can go a long way to stop outbreaks of the opportunistic C. diff bacteria, says an infection prevention and control expert.

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