Detection of binary-toxin genes (cdtA and cdtB) among Clostridium difficile strains isolated from patients with C. difficile-associated diarrhoea (CDAD) in Poland
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- 1 February 2005
- journal article
- Published by Microbiology Society in Journal of Medical Microbiology
- Vol. 54 (2) , 143-147
- https://doi.org/10.1099/jmm.0.45799-0
Abstract
Clostridium difficile A+B+ and A−B+ strains isolated from stool samples of patients with C. difficile-associated diarrhoea (CDAD) were selected from the University Hospital Warsaw collection. The binary-toxin genes cdtA and cdtB were detected by PCR in five of the 41 A+B+ strains tested, but in none of the 17 A−B+ strains tested, giving 8.6 % prevalence (5/58) of binary-toxin-positive strains. All of the strains that were positive for binary-toxin genes were grouped into toxinotype IV, suggesting that in this institution toxinotype IV might dominate among the population of C. difficile with binary-toxin genes.Keywords
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