%0 Journal Article %T Epidemiology of Clostridium Difficile Infection in a Large Hospital in Northern Italy: Questioning the Ward-Based Transmission %A Alessandro Mannini %A Gabriella Piatti %A Marcello Ceppi %A Marco Bruzzone %A Vincenzo Fontana %J Archive of "The Open Microbiology Journal". %D 2017 %R 10.2174/1874285801711010360 %X Clostridium Difficile infection (CDI) is considered a ward-based nosocomial infection, due to contagion among patients. Molecular studies recently questioned ward-based contact for disease spread %K Clostridium Difficile Infection %K Diarrhea %K Statistic %K Human %K Contagion %K Hospital %K Ecology %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5759130/