Healthcare facility-onset Clostridioides difficile infection rates substantially dropped in a Mexican hospital after its conversion to a full COVID-19 setting, despite heavy contamination of the environment the previous year. Better adherence to hand hygiene and contact precautions may help explain this finding.
Keywords: Decreased HO diarrhea rates; Disinfection; Hand hygiene; Infection control; Pandemic coronavirus.
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