Relatedness of human and animal Clostridium difficile PCR ribotype 078 isolates determined on the basis of multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis and tetracycline resistance

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 3744-3749

  Bakker, D ^a   Corver, J ^a   Harmanus, C ^a   Goorhuis, A ^a   Keessen, E C ^c   Fawley, W N ^b   Wilcox, M H ^b   Kuijper, E J ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; GENE LOCUS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPOSON; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; EUROPE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBOTYPING; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; TETRACYCLINE RESISTANCE;

ANIMALIA; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; SUS;

EID: 77957823336     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01171-10     Document Type: Article

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