Prevalence and Genetic Characterization of Toxin A Variant Strains of Clostridium difficile among Adults and Children with Diarrhea in France

Toxin A variant strains (toxin A-negative, toxin B-positive strains) of Clostridium difficile have been reported to be responsible for diarrhea or pseudomembranous colitis in humans. These strains lack parts of the repeating sequences of the toxin A gene (tcdA) and are toxin A negative by commercial...

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Veröffentlicht in:	J Clin Microbiol
Hauptverfasser:	Barbut, Frédéric, Lalande, Valérie, Burghoffer, Béatrice, Thien, Huong Vu, Grimprel, Emmanuel, Petit, Jean-Claude
Format:	Artigo
Sprache:	Inglês
Veröffentlicht:	American Society for Microbiology (ASM) 2002
Schlagworte:	Epidemiology
Online-Zugang:	https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttps://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC130789/ https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12037068/ https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttps://doi.org/10.1128/JCM.40.6.2079-2083.2002
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