Surface layer protein A variant of Clostridium diffi cile PCR-ribotype 027

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 317-319

  Spigaglia, Patrizia ^a   Barbanti, Fabrizio ^a   Mastrantonio, Paola ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE TOXIN A; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE TOXIN B; ERYTHROMYCIN; MOXIFLOXACIN; SURFACE LAYER PROTEIN A; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SEQUENCE; LETTER; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; AZA COMPOUNDS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CANADA; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; EPIDEMICS; ERYTHROMYCIN; EUROPE; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUINOLINES; RIBOTYPING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIRULENCE;

EID: 79551618441     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1702.100355     Document Type: Letter

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