6 Medical Microbiology from a Human Perspective

Question 1

C. difficile bacteriology

Answer 1

• Anaerobic, Gram positive, sporeforming rod, invironmental and zoonotic distribution.
• Spores relative resistant to heat, drying and many disinfectants, e.g. alcohol-based disinfectants.
• Tranmitted by faecal-oral transmission. Spores are viable in a hospital environment for months. May become predominant when the normal intestinal bacterial flora is disrupted by antibiotic treatment.

Question 2

Mest alm. nosocomiale diarre ?

anden vigtig nosocomial infektion?

Answer 2

Toxigenic C. difficile

Klebsiella pneumoniae, - zoonotisk