Advances in molecular surveillance of Clostridium difficile in Bulgaria

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue , 2013, Pages 1428-1434

  Dobreva, Elina G ^a   Ivanov, Ivan N ^a   Vathcheva Dobrevska, Rossitza S ^a   Ivanova, Katucha I ^a   Asseva, Galina D ^a   Petrov, Petar K ^a   Kantardjiev, Todor V ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER OF INFECTIOUS AND PARASITIC DISEASES   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GLUD PROTEIN; TCDB PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC ASSOCIATED DIARRHEA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BULGARIA; CLONAL VARIATION; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HIGH RESOLUTION MELTING ANALYSIS; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SURVEILLANCE; MOLECULAR TYPING; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOTYPING; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BULGARIA; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; DIARRHEA; FECES; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBOTYPING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84881560493     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.058149-0     Document Type: Article

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