Efficacy of Sodium Hypochlorite-Based Disinfectants Against Clostridium difficile Spores

Fawley, Warren N. PhD
Underwood, Sarah BSc
Freeman, Jane PhD
Baines, Simon D. PhD
Saxton, Katie BSc
Stephenson, Keith PhD
Owens, Robert C. Jr. MD
Wilcox, Mark H. MD

From the Department of Microbiology, the General Infirmary, Old Medical School (W.N.F., J.F., M.H.W.), the Faculty of Biological Sciences, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Leeds (S.U., S.D.B., K.S., K.S., M.H.W.), Leeds, United Kingdom; and the Maine Medical Center, Portland, Maine (R.C.O.).

Address reprint requests to Mark H. Wilcox, MD, Department of Microbiology, University of Leeds and the General Infirmary, Old Medical School, Leeds, LS1 3EX, UK ([email protected]).

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology 29(2):p 191-192, February 2008.