@article{10d4072a6857432ba2476175470176ac,
title = "Primary care clinics can be a source of exposure to virulent Clostridium (now Clostridioides) difficile: An environmental screening study of hospitals and clinics in Dallas-Fort Worth region",
author = "Simecka, \{Jerry W.\} and Fulda, \{Kimberly G.\} and Mark Pulse and Lee, \{Joon hak\} and John Vitucci and Phung Nguyen and Patricia Taylor and Frank Filipetto and Espinoza, \{Anna M.\} and Sushma Sharma",
note = "C. difficile is an endospore-forming pathogen, which is becoming a common cause of microbial health-care associated gastrointestinal disease in the United States. Both healthy and symptomatic patients can shed C. difficile spores into the environment, which can survive for long periods, being resistant to desiccation, heat, and disinfectants.",
year = "2019",
month = aug,
day = "15",
doi = "10.1371/JOURNAL.PONE.0220646",
language = "American English",
volume = "14",
journal = "PLOS ONE",
number = "8",
}