An investigation of the subtype diversity of clinical isolates of irish Clostridium difficile ribotypes 027 and 078 by repetitive-extragenic palindromic PCR

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 60, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1080-1087

  Solomon, K ^a   Murray, S ^a   Scott, L ^b   McDermott, S ^b   Drudy, D ^a   Martin, A ^a,c   O'Donoghue, C ^a,c   Skally, M ^b,d   Burns, K ^e   Fenelon, L ^b   Fitzpatrick, F ^d,e   Kyne, L ^a,c   Fanning, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b ST VINCENT S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^c MATER MISERICORDIAE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^d HEALTH PROTECTION SURVEILLANCE CENTRE   (Ireland)

^e BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; LINCOSAMIDE; MACROLIDE; METRONIDAZOLE; MIKAMYCIN B; MOXIFLOXACIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ADAPTATION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLONAL SPECIES; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISK DIFFUSION; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HUMAN; IRELAND; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPETITIVE EXTRAGENIC PALINDROMIC POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBOTYPING; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INVERTED REPEAT SEQUENCES; IRELAND; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBOTYPING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79960408994     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.029983-0     Document Type: Article

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