Triggering germination represents a novel strategy to enhance killing of Clostridium difficile spores

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Nerandzic, Michelle M ^a   Donskey, Curtis J ^a  

^a LOUIS STOKES CLEVELAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; AMINO ACID DERIVATIVE; MINERAL; OXYGEN; TAUROCHOLIC ACID; ALCOHOL DERIVATIVE; VANCOMYCIN;

AMBIENT AIR; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESICCATION; DISINFECTION; HEAT; NONHUMAN; SPORE GERMINATION; ULTRAVIOLET C RADIATION; AIR; ANAEROBIC GROWTH; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL SPORE; DRUG EFFECT; ENTEROCOCCUS; GERMINATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; TIME; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE;

AIR; ALCOHOLS; ANAEROBIOSIS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; DISINFECTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS; GERMINATION; HOSPITALS; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; RADIATION DOSAGE; SOLUTIONS; SPORES, BACTERIAL; TIME FACTORS; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; VANCOMYCIN;

EID: 77957904252     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0012285     Document Type: Article

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