Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) is a type of bacteria found in the environment, and in the feces (poop) of humans. Some people can carry the bacteria in their intestines without it causing them any harm. This is known as “colonization”. The bacteria can cause infection in others, known as “C. difficile infection (CDI)”, by producing a toxin that harms your intestines and causes symptoms.
Les entérocoques sont des bactéries qui se trouvent normalement dans les voies intestinales et digestives d’une personne. Ils se trouvent aussi souvent dans l’environnement. Ces bactéries peuvent causer bien des genres d’infections devant être traités par des antibiotiques.
Public Health Unit Infection Prevention and Control Lapse Report
Follow these tips to help avoid getting sick!
Ce livret vous aidera à prendre en charge les élèves atteints d’une maladie transmissible qui fréquentent votre établissement.
This booklet will help support you in the management of a child attending your facility who has a communicable disease.
This report provides surveillance information regarding diseases that are reportable to the public health unit under the Health Protection and Promotion Act (HPPA). The information contained provides the evidence necessary to identify key trends in the reportable diseases covered under this report and health issues of local public health significance. Such evidence helps in the tailoring of public health efforts and the improvement of the health of Windsor-Essex County residents.
Enterococci are bacteria (germs) that live in people’s gastrointestinal tract (the stomach and intestines).
Group A Streptococci (GAS) bacteria can cause many different infections that are mostly mild.
