Prevalence and duration of asymptomatic Clostridium difficile carriage among healthy subjects in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 2406-2409

  Galdys, Alison L ^a,b   Nelson, Jemma S ^a,b   Shutt, Kathleen A ^a,b   Schlackman, Jessica L ^a,b   Pakstis, Diana L ^a,b   Pasculle, A William ^a   Marsh, Jane W ^a,b   Harrison, Lee H ^a,b   Curry, Scott R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TCDA GENE; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT; ADOLESCENT; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; FECES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GENETICS; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUE; HETEROZYGOTE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NORMAL HUMAN; PEPTOCLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; TIME; VERY ELDERLY;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; ENTEROTOXIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; TCDA PROTEIN, CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; TCDC PROTEIN, CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CARRIER STATE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; ENTEROTOXINS; FECES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUES; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PENNSYLVANIA; PREVALENCE; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84903790034     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00222-14     Document Type: Article

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