<i>Clostridium difficile</i> (IMAGE)

University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

<i>Clostridium difficile</i>

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New research from Penn Medicine infection control specialists found that ultraviolet robots helped reduce the rates transmission of the common bacterial infection known as Clostridium difficile among cancer inpatients -- mostly blood cancer patients, a group more vulnerable to hospital-acquired infections -- by 25 percent. The interventions also saved about $150,000 in annual direct medical costs.

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