Community and hospital acquired Clostridium difficile in South Australia - ribotyping of isolates and a comparison of laboratory detection methods

Letters in Applied Microbiology

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 33-36

  Wilson, R ^a   Beerbaum, P ^a   Giglio, S ^a  

^a Healthscope Pathology   (Australia)

Author keywords

Clostridium difficile; Glutamate dehydrogenase; Infection control; Molecular; Ribotyping

Indexed keywords

ASSAYS; CLOSTRIDIUM; DIAGNOSIS; DISEASES; HEALTH CARE; PATIENT MONITORING;

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; DETECTION METHODS; GLUTAMATE DEHYDROGENASE; HEALTHCARE INSTITUTIONS; INFECTION CONTROL; MOLECULAR; RIBOTYPING; SOUTH AUSTRALIA; SPREAD OF DISEASE; TOXIGENIC;

PATHOLOGY;

AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED INFECTION; CYTOTOXICITY ASSAY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FECES ANALYSIS; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RIBOTYPING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; BACTERIAL GENE; CLASSIFICATION; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS INFECTION; FECES; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PEPTOCLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; PREVALENCE;

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; ENTEROTOXIN; GLUTAMATE DEHYDROGENASE; TCDA PROTEIN, CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; TOXB PROTEIN, CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE;

AGED; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; ENTEROTOXINS; FECES; GENES, BACTERIAL; GLUTAMATE DEHYDROGENASE; HUMANS; PREVALENCE; RIBOTYPING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84916220877     PISSN: 02668254     EISSN: 1472765X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/lam.12335     Document Type: Article

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