C. difficile has two distinct life stages depending on its environment: A vegetative form and a spore form. The vegetative form creates dangerous (and even life-threatening) infections in the human body, releasing toxins that cause tissue damage/ The vegetative form continues to wreak havoc outside the body, where its vast numbers in human waste can lead to outbreaks if not destroyed during environmental cleaning.
The second form rears its head when this environmental cleaning is not perfect: The spore form dehydrates and become latent, surviving without any need for water, nutrients or even air. C. difficile spores can remain on surfaces for weeks, months, even years - and can reanimate within minutes after exposed to water or a host. Only the toughest disinfectants used in the most precise cleaning protocols are able to kill C. difficile spores.
Well, until now. EOSCU also kills C. difficile spores, and without the need for additional human processes.