Presence of Clostridium difficile in piglets suspected of CDI in eleven pig farms in the Netherlands;Aanwezigheid van Clostridium difficile in biggen verdacht van C D I op elf varkensbedrijven in Nederland

Tijdschrift voor Diergeneeskunde

Volumn 135, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 134-137

  Keessen, E C ^a   Leengoed, L A M G ^b   Bakker, D ^c   Van Den Brink, K M J A ^a   Kuijper, E J ^c   Lipman, L J A ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; FECES; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MORTALITY; NETHERLANDS; NEWBORN; PREVALENCE; PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS COLITIS; RIBOTYPING; SWINE; SWINE DISEASE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; FECES; NETHERLANDS; PREVALENCE; RIBOTYPING; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES;

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; SUIDAE;

EID: 77749306405     PISSN: 00407453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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