Clostridium difficile toxinotype V, ribotype 078, in animals and humans

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2146-

  Rupnik, Maja ^a   Widmer, Andreas ^b   Zimmermann, Ortrud ^c   Eckert, Catherine ^d   Barbut, Frédéric ^d  

^a Centre for Microbiology   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^d SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATTLE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; FRANCE; GERMANY; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOTYPING; SLOVENIA; SWINE; SWITZERLAND;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; RIBOTYPING; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES;

ANIMALIA; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE;

EID: 45149116493     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00598-08     Document Type: Letter

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