Antimicrobial resistance, toxinotype, and genotypic profiling of Clostridium difficile isolates of swine origin

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 2366-2372

  Fry, Pamela R ^a,c   Thakur, Siddhartha ^b   Abley, Melanie ^a   Gebreyes, Wondwossen A ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CDTB GENE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA SEQUENCE; ERMB GENE; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SWINE; TCDA GENE; TCDB GENE; TCDC GENE; TETM GENE; TETW GENE; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FECES; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR TYPING; NORTH CAROLINA; OHIO; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SWINE;

EID: 84862743279     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.06581-11     Document Type: Article

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