Toxin-Producing clostridium difficile strains as long-term gut colonizers in healthy infants

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 173-179

  Adlerberth, Ingegerd ^a   Huang, Haihui ^b   Lindberg, Erika ^a   Åberg, Nils ^a   Hesselmar, Bill ^a   Saalman, Robert ^a   Nord, Carl Erik ^b   Wold, Agnes E ^a   Weintraubb, Andrej ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CDTA GENE; CDTB GENE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; FECES ANALYSIS; GENE MAPPING; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; INFANT; INTESTINE FLORA; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOTYPING; TCDA GENE; TCDB GENE;

BACTERIAL TOXINS; CARRIER STATE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; COHORT STUDIES; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; RIBOTYPING;

EID: 84891543721     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01701-13     Document Type: Article

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