Detection and characterization of Clostridium difficile from patients with antibiotic-associated diarrhoea in a tertiary care hospital in North India

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 58, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1657-1659

  Joshy, Lovely ^a   Chaudhry, Rama ^a   Dhawan, Benu ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAR; BACTERIAL TOXIN; CEFOXITIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; CYCLOSERINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; FRUCTOSE; METRONIDAZOLE; PENICILLIN G; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC ASSOCIATED DIARRHEA; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; DIARRHEA; DNA DETERMINATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INDIA; LETTER; LOOSE FECES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION MAPPING; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CROSS INFECTION; DIARRHEA; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INDIA;

EID: 73449121939     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.000125-0     Document Type: Letter

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