Human Clostridium difficile infection caused by a livestock-associated PCR ribotype 237 strain in Western Australia

INTRODUCTION: Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is a significant gastrointestinal disease in the developed world and increasingly recognised as a zoonotic infection. In North America and Europe, the PCR ribotype (RT) 078 strain of C. difficile is commonly found in production animals and as a cau...

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Published in:JMM Case Rep
Main Authors: Mc Govern, Alan M., Foster, Niki F., Pereira, Lynette A., Knight, Daniel R., Elliott, Briony, Chang, Barbara J., Riley, Thomas V.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Microbiology Society 2016
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Case Report
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5330249/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28348781
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1099/jmmcr.0.005062
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