%0 Journal Article
%T Modeling Clostridium difficile in a hospital setting: control and admissions of colonized and symptomatic patients
%A Farida Chamchod
%A Prasit Palittapongarnpim
%J Archive of "Theoretical Biology & Medical Modelling".
%D 2019
%R 10.1186/s12976-019-0098-0
%X Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) infection is an important cause of healthcare-associated diarrhea. Several factors such as admission of colonized patients, levels of serum antibodies in patients, and control strategies may involve in determining the prevalence and the persistence of C. difficile in a hospital unit
%K Transmission of Clostridium difficile
%K Admission of patients
%K Control implementation
%K Disruption of the gut flora
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6357410/