Clostridium difficile 027 emerging outbreak in Marseille, France

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1339-1341

  Lagier, Jean Christophe ^a,b   Dubourg, Gregory ^a,b   Cassir, Nadim ^c   Fournier, Pierre Edouard ^a,c   Colson, Philippe ^a,b   Richet, Hervé ^a,b   Brouqui, Philippe ^a,b   Raoult, Didier ^a,b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c HÔPITAL NORD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE TOXIN B;

AGED; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE 207; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DIARRHEA; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FRANCE; HEALTHCARE ASSOCIATED INFECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNODETECTION; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ADP RIBOSE TRANSFERASES; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; FECES; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RIBOTYPING;

EID: 84887580913     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/673995     Document Type: Letter

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