Emergence and global spread of epidemic healthcare-associated Clostridium difficile

Nature Genetics

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 109-113

  He, Miao ^a   Miyajima, Fabio ^b   Roberts, Paul ^b   Ellison, Louise ^a   Pickard, Derek J ^a   Martin, Melissa J ^c   Connor, Thomas R ^a   Harris, Simon R ^a   Fairley, Derek ^d   Bamford, Kathleen B ^e,f   D'Arc, Stephanie ^e,f   Brazier, Jon ^g   Brown, Derek ^h   Coia, John E ^h   Douce, Gill ^h   Gerding, Dale ⁱ   Kim, Hee Jung ^j   Koh, Tse Hsien ^k   Kato, Haru ^l   Senoh, Mitsutoshi ^l   Louie, Tom ^m   Michell, Stephen ⁿ   Butt, Emma ⁿ   Peacock, Sharon J ^a,o,p,q   Brown, Nick M ^p,q   Riley, Tom ^r   Songer, Glen ^s   Wilcox, Mark ^t   Pirmohamed, Munir ^b   Kuijper, Ed ^u   Hawkey, Peter ^v   Wren, Brendan W ^c   Dougan, Gordon ^a   Parkhill, Julian ^a   Lawley, Trevor D ^a   more..

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^d ROYAL GROUP OF HOSPITALS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f IMPERIAL COLLEGE HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^g Anaerobe Reference Unit   (United Kingdom)

^h Scottish Salmonella Shigella and Clostridium difficile Reference Laboratory   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ HINES VA HOSPITAL   (United States)

^j Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^k SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^l NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^m UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^o UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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

^q PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^r UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^s IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^t UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^u LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^v UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIAL CELL; CELL LINEAGE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; EPIDEMIC; EUROPE; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPOSON; UNITED KINGDOM;

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; DIARRHEA; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; EPIDEMICS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE;

EID: 84871990888     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.2478     Document Type: Article

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