First case of autochthonous Clostridium difficile PCR ribotype 027 detected in Spain

Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 355-358

  Marín, Mercedes ^a,b,c,d   Martín, Adoración ^a   Alcolea, Adela ^a   Iglesias, Cristina ^a   Alcalá, Luis ^a,c,d   Peláez, Teresa ^a,b,c,d   Sánchez Somolinos, Mar ^a,b,c,d   Bouza, Emilio ^a,b,c,d  

^a HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO GREGORIO MARAÑÓN   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^d HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO GREGORIO MARAÑÓN   (Spain)

Author keywords

Autochthonous case; Clostridium difficile; PCR ribotype 027; Spain

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE TOXIN A; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE TOXIN B; ERTAPENEM; FOSFOMYCIN; GLUTAMATE DEHYDROGENASE; METRONIDAZOLE;

ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CASE REPORT; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; DIARRHEA; FECES CULTURE; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LUNG ALVEOLUS PROTEINOSIS; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; RIBOTYPING; SPAIN; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT; VERY ELDERLY; ADULT; ANTIGEN DETECTION; BRITISH CITIZEN; CHRONIC DIARRHEA; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; FECES ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; INCIDENCE; LENGTH OF STAY; MEDICAL HISTORY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTILOCUS VARIABLE TANDEM REPEAT ANALYSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPANIARD; TANDEM REPEAT; TCDC GENE; CLASSIFICATION; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PEPTOCLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION;

ADULT; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; RIBOTYPING; SPAIN;

EID: 84903902729     PISSN: 0213005X     EISSN: 15781852     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eimc.2013.07.004     Document Type: Article

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