Extended multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis of Clostridium difficile correlates exactly with ribotyping and enables identification of hospital transmission

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 3523-3530

  Manzoor, S E ^a   Tanner, H E ^b   Marriott, C L ^b   Brazier, J S ^c   Hardy, K J ^a,b   Platt, S ^d   Hawkey, P M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS BIRMINGHAM NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF WALES   (United Kingdom)

^d PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOTYPING; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; RIBOTYPING; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE;

EID: 80053467680     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00546-11     Document Type: Article

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