Infectious Disease News published a story in March about a presentation by Dr. Dale Gerding at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America.
You can view the story here.
Essentially, it was reported that hand washing is not as effective as we want it to be for removing the C. Difficile spores. No usable product was found to be able to remove more than 90% of the spores. This reinforces the importance of wearing gloves.
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