Study of the frequency of Clostridium difficile tcdA, tcdB, cdtA and cdtB genes in feces of Calves in south west of Iran

Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Doosti, Abbas ^a   Mokhtari Farsani, Abbas ^a  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Binary toxin; Calves; Clostridium difficile; Toxin A; Toxin B

Indexed keywords

CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; GENOMIC DNA;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CALF (BOVINE); CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; DISK DIFFUSION; DNA EXTRACTION; DRUG SENSITIVITY; FECES; GENE FREQUENCY; IRAN; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ADP RIBOSE TRANSFERASES; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CATTLE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROTOXINS; FECES; IRAN; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 84902536496     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14760711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-0711-13-21     Document Type: Article

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