Clostridium difficile in England: can we stop washing our hands?

Affiliations

¹ Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok 10400, Thailand; Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, UK. Electronic address: esther@tropmedres.ac.
² Department of Medical Microbiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands.
³ Julius Centre for Health Sciences and Primary Care, and Department of Medical Microbiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
⁴ Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok 10400, Thailand; Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, UK.

Comment

Esther van Kleef et al. Lancet Infect Dis. 2017 May.

. 2017 May;17(5):478.

doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(17)30186-X.

¹ Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok 10400, Thailand; Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, UK. Electronic address: esther@tropmedres.ac.
² Department of Medical Microbiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands.
³ Julius Centre for Health Sciences and Primary Care, and Department of Medical Microbiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
⁴ Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok 10400, Thailand; Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, UK.

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Clostridium difficile in England: can we stop washing our hands? - Authors' reply.
Eyre DW, Dingle KE, Didelot X, Quan TP, Peto TEA, Wilcox MH, Walker AS, Crook DW. Eyre DW, et al. Lancet Infect Dis. 2017 May;17(5):478-479. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(17)30185-8. Lancet Infect Dis. 2017. PMID: 28447949 No abstract available.

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