Presence of Clostridium difficile PCR ribotype clusters related to 033, 078 and 045 in diarrhoeic calves in Germany

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue PART8, 2013, Pages 1190-1198

  Schneeberg, Alexander ^a   Neubauer, Heinrich ^a   Schmoock, Gernot ^a   Grossmann, Ernst ^b   Seyboldt, Christian ^a  

^a FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^b Aulendorf State Veterinary Diagnostic Centre   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LATAMOXEF; NORFLOXACIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CALF (BOVINE); CATTLE DISEASE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DIARRHEA; ENRICHMENT CULTURE; GENE LOCUS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DIARRHEA; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; FECES; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; GERMANY; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; RIBOTYPING;

EID: 84880290882     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.056473-0     Document Type: Article

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