Clostridium Difficiles Effective Prevention Strategies

Research paper on Clostridium Difficile Introduction Clostridium difficile involves a gram-positive spore-forming bacterium, which is a normal element of the colon flora in people. The Clostridium difficile can cause antibiotic-associated diarrhea when the competing bacteria in the gut flora are all killed by antibiotic treatment. The Clostridium difficile infection is one of the serious healthcare-related infection and also a rising health care problem. In the early 1970s, the Clostridium difficile has been known to have the ability to cause pseudomembranous colitis. As stated, the infection is the most cause of nosocomial infectious diarrhea (Aktories Wilkins, 2000). Individuals that are colonized with clostridium difficile serve as the reservoir for infection and this is by contaminating the environment with spores of such bacteria. This will lead to the spread of the organism on the health care worker’s hands or even through the use of medical equipment. In this paper, we are going to focus on the effective prevention strat egies for clostridium difficile. What are the effective prevention strategies for clostridium difficile? Literature Review According the MacDonald Clifford (2013), the pathogen has been responsible for causing incident infections. In 2011, the clostridium difficile did cause approximately 453,000 incident infections, and also it was associated with approximately 29,000 deaths in the United States. This is