Improving the reproducibility of the NAP1/B1/027 epidemic strain R20291 in the hamster model of infection

Anaerobe

Volumn 39, Issue , 2016, Pages 51-53

  Kelly, Michelle L ^a   Ng, Yen Kuan ^a   Cartman, Stephen T ^a,b   Collery, Mark M ^a   Cockayne, Alan ^a   Minton, Nigel P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b Invista   (United States)

Author keywords

Clindamycin sensitivity; Clostridium difficile; ErmB; Genome engineering; Hamster model

Indexed keywords

CLINDAMYCIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; METHYLTRANSFERASE; RRNA (ADENOSINE-O-2'-)METHYLTRANSFERASE; SYNTHETIC DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERMB GENE; HAMSTER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PEPTOCLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL GENOME; CRICETULUS; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG EFFECTS; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; MICROBIOLOGY; MORTALITY; MUTATION; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CLINDAMYCIN; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CRICETULUS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, SYNTHETIC; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MUTATION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84960084711     PISSN: 10759964     EISSN: 10958274     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anaerobe.2016.02.011     Document Type: Article

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