Typing and subtyping of Clostridium difficile isolates by using multiple-locus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1024-1028

  Van Den Berg, Renate J ^a   Schaap, Inge ^a   Templeton, Kate E ^a,d   Klaassen, Corné H W ^b   Kuijper, Ed J ^a,c  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b CANISIUS WILHELMINA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^c Center of Infectious Diseases   (Netherlands)

^d ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE TOXIN A; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE TOXIN B;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RIBOTYPING; TANDEM REPEAT;

AUTOMATION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, CAPILLARY; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; ENTEROTOXINS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; RIBOTYPING;

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE 630;

EID: 33947195010     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02023-06     Document Type: Article

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