High diversity of Clostridium difficile genotypes isolated from a single poultry farm producing replacement laying hens

Anaerobe

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 325-327

  Zidaric, Valerija ^a   Zemljic, Mateja ^a   Janezic, Sandra ^b   Kocuvan, Aleksander ^b   Rupnik, Maja ^a,b  

^a Centre for Microbiology   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Animals; Clostridium difficile; Poultry; Typing

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BINARY TOXIN GENE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; FECES CULTURE; GENOTYPE; HEN; HOST; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POULTRY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CHICKENS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FECES; GENOTYPE; PREVALENCE; RIBOTYPING;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; EQUIDAE; SUIDAE;

EID: 60149085427     PISSN: 10759964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anaerobe.2008.10.001     Document Type: Article

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