Novel molecular type of clostridium difficile in neonatal pigs, Western Australia

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 790-792

  Squire, Michele M ^a   Carter, Glen P ^b   Mackin, Kate E ^b   Chakravorty, Anjana ^b   Norén, Torbjörn ^c   Elliott, Briony ^a   Lyras, Dena ^b   Riley, Thomas V ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d PATHWEST LABORATORY MEDICINE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CYTOTOXICITY TEST; ENTERITIS; GENOME ANALYSIS; MALE; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PATHOGENICITY; SWINE; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIA; C. DIFFICILE; CDIFF; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; DIARRHEA; DNA; DOMESTIC; ENTERITIS; PCR; PIGLETS; PIGS; PREVALENCE; RIBOTYPING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VETERINARY; ZOONOSES;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; RIBOTYPING; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SWINE; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84876777286     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1905.121062     Document Type: Article

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