A gram-positive, anaerobic, and spore-forming rods bacteria which cause the severe infection of colon called pseudomembranous colitis. The illness is characterized by offensive-smelling diarrhea, fever, and aabdominal pain. It can cause toxic megacolon or even fatal.
According to an article published by Centre for Disease Control (CDC), there is a vast increment of people being hospitalized resulted from C. Diff. infection. Feces spores are the spreading medium and it’s hardly killed by conventional cleaners or antibacterial soap.
Besides, when patient take in antibiotic which works against colon bacteria, C.Diff. explodes as it is resistant to them. Virulent strain of C.Diff. is commonly found only after 2000.
Misuse of antibiotics and patients who are older and sicker are factors that cause the rising of C.Diff. infection.
A research is conducted based on more than 36 million annual discharges from non-governmental U.S. hospitals. It is to be concluded that fatal cases account for 2.3 percent or 5,500 death in other word.
Frequency of occurrence and preventive measures of C. Diff. infection are being studied by the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology in order to come out with a best solution.
Reference available at CDC publication: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/index.htm
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