Clostridium difficile and enterotoxigenic Bacteroides fragilis strains isolated from patients with antibiotic associated diarrhoea

Anaerobe

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 161-163

  Pituch, H ^a   Obuch Woszczatynski P ^a   Luczak M ^a   Meisel Mikolajczyk F ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

AAD; Bacteroides fragilis (ETBF); Clostridium difficile; PCR

Indexed keywords

FRAGILYSIN; TOXIN;

ANTIBIOTIC ASSOCIATED DIARRHEA; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CELL LINE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; COLON CARCINOMA; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPATHOGENIC EFFECT; CYTOTOXICITY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FECES ANALYSIS; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTEROIDES; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE;

EID: 0141676396     PISSN: 10759964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1075-9964(03)00119-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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