Occurrence of Clostridium difficile infections due to PCR ribotype 027 in Bucharest, Romania

Journal of Infection in Developing Countries

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 694-698

  Rafila, Alexandru ^a   Indra, Alexander ^b   Popescu, Gabriel Adrian ^a   Wewalka, Günther ^b   Allerberger, Franz ^b   Benea, Serban ^a   Badicut, Ioana ^a   Aschbacher, Richard ^c   Huhulescu, Steliana ^b  

^a Matei Bals National Institute for Infectious Diseases   (Romania)

^b Institute for Medical Microbiologyand Hygiene   (Austria)

^c Laboratorio Aziendale di Microbiologia e Virologia   (Italy)

Author keywords

Clostridium difficile; Ribotype 027; Romania

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE TOXIN A; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE TOXIN B; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; ENTEROTOXIN; TCDA PROTEIN, CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; TOXB PROTEIN, CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE RIBOTYPE PCR 027; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED INFECTION; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FECES CULTURE; FEMALE; HEALTHCARE ASSOCIATED INFECTION; HEART INFARCTION; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HUMAN; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MORTALITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECURRENT DISEASE; ROMANIA; SOLID TUMOR; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT; VERY ELDERLY; BIOSYNTHESIS; CLASSIFICATION; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; EPIDEMIC; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PEPTOCLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; RIBOTYPING; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; ENTEROTOXINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RIBOTYPING; ROMANIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84902338990     PISSN: 20366590     EISSN: 19722680     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3855/jidc.4435     Document Type: Article

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