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The highly contagious Clostridium difficile spreads more than three times as much within intensive care unit environments as previously recognized, according to a study published April 3 in JAMA Network Open. Researchers from Salt Lake City-based University of Utah Health found that, while direct patient-to-patient transmission is rare, there is a lot more movement of C. diff between surfaces, from surface-to-patient, and from patient-to-surface than previously found," Lindsay Keegan, PhD, first author of the study, said in a news release."