Laboratory diagnosis of Clostridium difficile associated diarrhoea and molecular characterization of clinical isolates

New Microbiologica

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 307-316

  Russello, Giuseppe ^a   Russo, Antonio ^a   Sisto, Francesca ^b   Scaltrito, Maria Maddalena ^b   Farina, Claudio ^a  

^a SAN CARLO BORROMEO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Clostridium difficile; Nosocomial infection; PCR ribotyping; Rep PCR; Toxigenic culture

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; ENTEROTOXIN; GLUTAMATE DEHYDROGENASE; HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUND; METRONIDAZOLE; MOXIFLOXACIN; QUINOLINE DERIVATIVE; TCDA PROTEIN, CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; TOXB PROTEIN, CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTION; DIARRHEA; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; EVALUATION; FECES; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOGENICITY; PREVALENCE; RIBOTYPING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; AZA COMPOUNDS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; DIARRHEA; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROTOXINS; FECES; FEMALE; GENES, BACTERIAL; GLUTAMATE DEHYDROGENASE; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; MALE; METRONIDAZOLE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; QUINOLINES; RIBOTYPING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE;

EID: 84864551417     PISSN: 11217138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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