Clonal spread of a Clostridium difficile strain with a complete set of toxin A, toxin B, and binary toxin genes among polish patients with Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 472-475

  Pituch, Hanna ^a   Kreft, Deborah ^b   Obuch Woszczatyński, Piotr ^a   Wultańska, Dorota ^a   Meisel Mikołajczyk, Felicja ^a   Łuczak, Mirosław ^a   Van Belkum, Alex ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE TOXIN A; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE TOXIN B;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CHILD; CLONAL VARIATION; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; DIARRHEA; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; ENTEROTOXINS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLAND; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBOTYPING; VARIATION (GENETICS);

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 11844280954     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.43.1.472-475.2005     Document Type: Article

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