Clostridium difficile in ready-to-eat salads, Scotland

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 817-818

  Bakri, Marwah M ^a   Brown, Derek J ^b   Butcher, John P ^a   Sutherland, Alistair D ^a  

^a GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Scottish Salmonella Shigella and Clostridium difficile Reference Laboratory   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; CEFOTAXIME; CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; LATAMOXEF; METRONIDAZOLE; MOXIFLOXACIN; NORFLOXACIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; FOOD; FOOD CONTAMINATION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBOTYPING; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROTOXINS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; LETTUCE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBOTYPING; SCOTLAND; SPINACIA OLERACEA; SPORES, BACTERIAL;

EID: 66149146645     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1505.081186     Document Type: Article

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