Investigation of community carriage rates of Clostridium difficile and Hungatella hathewayi in healthy volunteers from four regions of England

S. E. Manzoor; Cliodna McNulty; D. Nakiboneka-Ssenabulya; Donna Lecky; K. J. Hardy; Peter Hawkey

doi:10.1016/j.jhin.2017.05.014

Investigation of community carriage rates of Clostridium difficile and Hungatella hathewayi in healthy volunteers from four regions of England

S. E. Manzoor^*
, Cliodna McNulty
, D. Nakiboneka-Ssenabulya
, Donna Lecky
, K. J. Hardy
, Peter Hawkey

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Faecal samples from 1365 healthy asymptomatic volunteers from four regions in England were screened for the presence of Clostridium difficile between December 2013 and July 2014. The carriage rate of C. difficile in healthy patients was 0.5%, which is lower than reported previously. This study demonstrates that the true community reservoir of C. difficile in the healthy UK population is very low and is, therefore, unlikely to be a reservoir for infections diagnosed in the hospital setting.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	153-155
Number of pages	3
Journal	Journal of Hospital Infection
Volume	97
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2017.05.014
Publication status	Published - Oct 2017

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Keywords

Clostridium difficile
Community carriage
Hungatella hathewayi

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Investigation of community carriage rates of Clostridium difficile and Hungatella hathewayi in healthy volunteers from four regions of England

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