| dc.rights.license | CC-BY-NC-ND | |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Keessen, E.C. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Donswijk, C.J. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2011-05-18T17:01:02Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2011-05-18 | |
| dc.date.available | 2011-05-18T17:01:02Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2011 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://studenttheses.uu.nl/handle/20.500.12932/6998 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Clostridium difficile is increasingly recognized as an important enteropathogen in both humans and animals. The finding of C. difficile in air samples in hospitals suggests a role for aerial dissemination in the transmission of human C. difficile infection. The present study was designed to investigate the occurrence of airborne C. difficile in, and nearby a pig farm with a high prevalence of C. difficile. Airborne colony counts in the farrowing pens peaked on the moments shortly after or during personnel activity in the pens (P = 0.043 (farrowing pen 1,2), P = 0.034 (farrowing pen 2)). A decrease in airborne C. difficile colony counts was observed parallel to aging of the piglets. Airborne C. difficile was detected up to 20 m distant from the farm.
This study showed the widespread character of aerial dissemination of C. difficile on a pig farm and the association between personnel activity in farrowing pens and an increase of C. difficile in the air. | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Utrecht University | |
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| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.title | Aerial dissemination of Clostridium difficile on a pig farm and its environment | |
| dc.type.content | Doctoral Thesis | |
| dc.rights.accessrights | Open Access | |
| dc.subject.keywords | aerial dissemination, Clostridium difficile, activity, pig farm | |
| dc.subject.courseuu | Diergeneeskunde | |
