Carriage of Clostridium difficile by wild urban Norway rats (Rattus norvegicus) and black rats (Rattus rattus)

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1299-1305

  Himsworth, Chelsea G ^a,b   Patrick, David M ^a   Mak, Sunny ^c   Jardine, Claire M ^d   Tang, Patrick ^a,c   Scott Weese, J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b ANIMAL HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^c BRITISH COLUMBIA CENTRE FOR DISEASE CONTROL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DIFFICILE STRAIN; DOMESTIC SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION; GENERALIZED LINEAR MIXED MODELS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; VANCOUVER , CANADA;

ANIMALS; CLOSTRIDIUM;

RATS;

BACTERIUM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE VECTOR; HEALTH RISK; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; RODENT; TOXIN; URBAN AREA; WILD POPULATION;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; VANCOUVER [BRITISH COLUMBIA];

BACTERIAL TOXIN;

ANIMAL; CANADA; CLASSIFICATION; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PEPTOCLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; PREVALENCE; RAT; RIBOTYPING; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CANADA; CARRIER STATE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; PREVALENCE; RATS; RIBOTYPING;

EID: 84893351763     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.03609-13     Document Type: Article

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