More than 50% of clostridium difficile isolates from pet dogs in Flagstaff, USA, carry toxigenic genotypes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2016, Pages

  Stone, Nathan E ^a   Sidak Loftis, Lindsay C ^a   Sahl, Jason W ^a   Vazquez, Adam J ^a   Wiggins, Kristin B ^b   Gillece, John D ^b   Hicks, Nathan D ^b   Schupp, James M ^b   Busch, Joseph D ^a   Keim, Paul ^a,b   Wagner, David M ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; DIARRHEA; DOG; FECES ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PEPTOCLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; PREVALENCE; UNITED STATES; ANIMAL; DOG DISEASE; FECES; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PET ANIMAL; PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS COLITIS;

ANIMALS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; FECES; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; PETS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84991516771     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0164504     Document Type: Article

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