Different antibiotic resistance and sporulation properties within multiclonal clostridium difficile pcr ribotypes 078, 126, and 033 in a single calf farm

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 24, 2012, Pages 8515-8522

  Zidaric, Valerija ^a   Pardon, Bart ^b   dos Vultos, Tiago ^c,g   Deprez, Piet ^b   Brouwer, Michael Sebastiaan Maria ^d   Roberts, Adam P ^d   Henriques, Adriano O ^c   Rupnik, Maja ^a,e,f  

^a Institute of Public Health Maribor   (Slovenia)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

^f Center of Excellence for Integrated Approaches in Chemistry and Biology of Proteins   (Slovenia)

^g F HOFFMANN LA ROCHE LTD   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; DOXYCYCLINE; IN-VITRO; METRONIDAZOLE; MULTIPLE STRAINS; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RESISTANCE GENES; SAMPLING POINTS; TIME POINTS;

ANIMALS; CLOSTRIDIUM; ELECTROPHORESIS;

ANTIBIOTICS;

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIUM; COHORT ANALYSIS; ELECTROKINESIS; PERIODICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SAMPLING; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPORULATION;

ANIMAL; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL SPORE; CATTLE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG EFFECT; FECES; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RIBOTYPING;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CATTLE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FECES; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RIBOTYPING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPORES, BACTERIAL;

ANIMALIA; BOS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE;

EID: 84870976294     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02185-12     Document Type: Article

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