Real-time PCR and typing of Clostridium difficile isolates colonizing mare-foal pairs

Veterinary Journal

Volumn 190, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 119-123

  Magdesian, K Gary ^a   Leutenegger, C M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Clostridium difficile; Foals; Genotyping; Horses; Toxins

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE TOXIN A; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE TOXIN B;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOAL; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; IMMUNOASSAY; MARE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; ASYMPTOMATIC INFECTIONS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CALIFORNIA; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; DIARRHEA; ENTEROTOXINS; FECES; FEMALE; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; HORSES; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; EQUIDAE;

EID: 80053565417     PISSN: 10900233     EISSN: 15322971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tvjl.2010.10.001     Document Type: Article

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