Clostridium difficile PCR ribotype 078 toxinotype V found in diarrhoeal pigs identical to isolates from affected humans

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 505-511

  Debast, Sylvia B ^a   Van Leengoed, Leo A M G ^b   Goorhuis, Abraham ^c   Harmanus, Celine ^c   Kuijper, Ed J ^c   Bergwerff, Aldert A ^d  

^a MEANDER MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL TOXIN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLASSIFICATION; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIARRHEA; DNA FINGERPRINTING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; NETHERLANDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBOTYPING; SWINE; SWINE DISEASE; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DIARRHEA; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; NETHERLANDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBOTYPING; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES;

ANIMALIA; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; SUIDAE; SUS;

EID: 58549107018     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2008.01790.x     Document Type: Article

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