First isolation of Clostridium difficile PCR-ribotype 027/toxinotype III in Poland

Polish Journal of Microbiology

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 267-268

  Pituch, Hanna ^a   Bakker, Dennis ^b,c   Kuijper, Ed ^b,c   Obuch Woszczatyński, Piotr ^a   Wultańska, Dorota ^a   Nurzyńska, Grazyna ^a   Bielec, Anna ^a   Bar Andziak, Ewa ^a   Łuczak, Mirosław ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

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

Author keywords

Binary toxin; Clostridium difficile; PCR ribotype 027 toxinotype III; Resistance to newer fluoroquinolones

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GATIFLOXACIN; METRONIDAZOLE; MOXIFLOXACIN; PREDNISOLONE; PROBIOTIC AGENT; PROTEIN CDTA; PROTEIN CDTB; PROTEIN TCDA; PROTEIN TCDB; PROTEIN TCDC; SALAZOSULFAPYRIDINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CASE REPORT; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; FECES CULTURE; FEMALE; FEVER; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; POLAND; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; POLAND; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBOTYPING;

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE;

EID: 55049096441     PISSN: 17331331     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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