Clostridium difficile ribotype 027, toxinotype III, the Netherlands

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 827-830

  Kuijper, Ed J ^a   Van Den Berg, Renate J ^a   Debast, Sylvia ^b   Visser, Caroline E ^c   Veenendaal, Dick ^d   Troelstra, Annet ^e   Van Der Kooi, Tjallie ^f   Van Den Hof, Susan ^f   Notermans, Daan W ^f  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ST JANSDAL HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^c ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d Laboratory of Public Health Haarlem   (Netherlands)

^e Utrecht Medical Center   (Netherlands)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE TOXIN A;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE RIBOTYPE 027; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE TOXINOTYPE 3; DIARRHEA; EPIDEMIC; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; NETHERLANDS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

EID: 33646562852     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1205.051350     Document Type: Article

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