Novel evidence suggesting Clostridium difficile is present in human gut microbiota more frequently than previously suspected

Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 889-892

  Iizuka, Masahiro ^a   Konno, Shiho ^a   Itou, Hiroaki ^a   Chihara, Junichi ^a   Toyoshima, Itaru ^a   Horie, Yasuo ^a   Sasaki, Kenji ^a   Sato, Akiko ^a   Shindo, Kenichi ^a   Watanabe, Sumio ^a  

^a AKITA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Clostridium difficile; Healthy human adult; PCR; Toxin B

Indexed keywords

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE TOXIN B; DNA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION INHIBITOR; REAGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA TEMPLATE; EXTRACTION; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; INHIBITION KINETICS; INTESTINE FLORA; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREVALENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; MICROBIOTA; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 10044225993     PISSN: 03855600     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1348-0421.2004.tb03607.x     Document Type: Article

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