Journal article
Community-acquired Clostridium difficile infection and Australian food animals
Microbiology Australia, pp.111-113
2015
Abstract
Clostridium difficile is an anaerobic Gram positive spore-forming bacterium, the leading cause of infectious diarrhoea (C. difficile infection; CDI) in hospitalised humans. The assumption that CDI is primarily a hospital-acquired infection is being questioned. Community-acquired CDI (CA-CDI) is increasing particularly in groups previously considered at low risk. In Australia, CA-CDI rates doubled during 2011 and increased by 24% between 2011 and 2012. Two potentially high-risk practices in Australian food animal husbandry may present a risk for CA-CDI: slaughtering of neonatal animals for food, and effluent recycling to agriculture.
Details
- Title
- Community-acquired Clostridium difficile infection and Australian food animals
- Authors/Creators
- M.M. Squire (Author/Creator)D.R. Knight (Author/Creator)T.V. Riley (Author/Creator)
- Publication Details
- Microbiology Australia, pp.111-113
- Publisher
- CSIRO Publishing
- Identifiers
- 991005541209507891
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Murdoch University
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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