New PCR ribotypes of Clostridium difficile detected in children in Brazil

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 53-59

  Alcides, Ana P P ^a,b   Brazier, Jon S ^c   Pinto, Leandro J F ^d   Balassiano, Ilana T ^a   Boente, Renata F ^a   Paula, Geraldo R ^e   Ferreira, Eliane O ^a   Avelar, Kátia E S ^f   Miranda, Karla R ^a   Ferreira, M Candida S ^a   Domingues, Regina M C P ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b National Institute for Quality Control in Health   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF WALES   (United Kingdom)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF JUIZ DE FORA   (Brazil)

^e FLUMINENSE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

^f INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Clostridium difficile; Hospital environments; Outpatients and inpatients children; PCR ribotyping; Serogrouping

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; CLINDAMYCIN; METRONIDAZOLE; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BRAZIL; CHILD; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FECES; GENOTYPE; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; INFANT; NONHUMAN; OUTPATIENT; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SEROTYPING;

BRAZIL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLINDAMYCIN; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; HUMANS; INFANT; METRONIDAZOLE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBOTYPING; VANCOMYCIN;

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE;

EID: 34247634750     PISSN: 00036072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10482-006-9134-2     Document Type: Article

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