Preliminary molecular analysis of Clostridium difficile isolates from healthy horses in northern Italy

Comparative Immunology, Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Ossiprandi, Maria Cristina ^a   Buttrini, Mirko ^a   Bottarelli, Ezio ^a   Zerbini, Laura ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Clostridium difficile; Healthy horses; Molecular analysis; Toxigenic non toxigenic; Zoonosis

Indexed keywords

CYTOTOXIN; ENTEROTOXIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HORSE; IN VITRO STUDY; ITALY; MALE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBOTYPING; TCDA GENE; TCDB GENE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; ENTEROTOXINS; FECES; GENOTYPE; HORSES; INTESTINES; ITALY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBOTYPING;

ANIMALIA; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; EQUIDAE;

EID: 78650195313     PISSN: 01479571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cimid.2009.10.008     Document Type: Article

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