Potential Sources of Clostridium difficile in Human Infection

Infectious Disease Clinics of North America

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 29-35

  Bauer, Martijn P ^a   Kuijper, Ed J ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Animals; Food; Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus; PCR ribotype 078; Pigs; Spores; Transmission; Zoonosis

Indexed keywords

MACROLIDE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; DIARRHEA; DISEASE CARRIER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INCUBATION TIME; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MOLECULAR TYPING; NONHUMAN; PEPTOCLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY CONTROL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SALMONELLA; UNITED KINGDOM; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; WINTER; ANIMAL; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTION; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED INFECTION; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MEAT; MICROBIOLOGY; TRANSMISSION; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; MEAT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84922892218     PISSN: 08915520     EISSN: 15579824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.idc.2014.11.010     Document Type: Review

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