Is Clostridium difficile a threat to Australia's biosecurity?

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 190, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 661-662

  Riley, Thomas V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL TOXIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL SPORE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EDITORIAL; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS COLITIS; RISK FACTOR; ANIMAL; AUSTRALIA; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTION; GENETICS; INFECTION CONTROL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATHOGENICITY; STATISTICS;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; SECURITY MEASURES;

EID: 68349097517     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: 13265377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2009.tb02630.x     Document Type: Editorial

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