Clostridium difficile detection: Identification of colonization, subclinical and overt disease

Journal of Hospital Infection

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 138-139

  Awad el Kariem, F ^a   Brown, N ^b   Malone, C ^a   Gough, H ^a   Yates, C ^a   O'Connor, H ^a  

^a LISTER HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; CYTOTOXICITY; FECES ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LETTER; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBOTYPING; TOXIN ANALYSIS;

BACTERIAL TOXINS; CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 84866428411     PISSN: 01956701     EISSN: 15322939     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhin.2012.07.015     Document Type: Letter

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