Short-Term Genome Stability of Serial Clostridium difficile Ribotype 027 Isolates in an Experimental Gut Model and Recurrent Human Disease

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Eyre, David W ^a   Walker, A Sarah ^a   Freeman, Jane ^b   Baines, Simon D ^b   Fawley, Warren N ^b   Chilton, Caroline H ^b   Griffiths, David ^a   Vaughan, Alison ^a   Crook, Derrick W ^a   Peto, Tim E A ^a   Wilcox, Mark H ^b  

^a JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CADAZOLID; CLINDAMYCIN; NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN VARIANT; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC STABILITY; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; INTESTINE INFECTION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RECURRENT INFECTION; SYMPTOM;

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RECURRENCE;

EID: 84877755059     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0063540     Document Type: Article

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