Prevention of porcine Clostridium difficile-associated disease by competitive exclusion with nontoxigenic organisms

Veterinary Microbiology

Volumn 124, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 358-361

  Songer, J Glenn ^a   Jones, Randy ^b   Anderson, Michael A ^a   Barbara, Angelique J ^a   Post, Karen W ^c   Trinh, Hien T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b Livestock Veterinary Services   (United States)

^c Rollins Anim Dis Diagn Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Clostridium difficile; Porcine neonatal typhlocolitis

Indexed keywords

CLOSTRIDIUM TOXIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL SPORE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FECES ANALYSIS; GROWTH RETARDATION; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PIG FARMING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PORCINE NEONATAL TYPHOCOLITIS; SWINE DISEASE; TOXIN ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; FEMALE; PREGNANCY; PROBIOTICS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SPORES, BACTERIAL; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; WEANING; WEIGHT GAIN;

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CRICETINAE; SUIDAE; SUS;

EID: 34547950896     PISSN: 03781135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2007.04.019     Document Type: Article

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