Toxigenic status of Clostridium difficile in a large Spanish teaching hospital
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- 1 February 2005
- journal article
- Published by Microbiology Society in Journal of Medical Microbiology
- Vol. 54 (2) , 159-162
- https://doi.org/10.1099/jmm.0.45809-0
Abstract
The aim of this study was to evaluate the toxigenic status of circulating strains of Clostridium difficile in a large teaching hospital. Overall 220 isolates were studied of which 199 (90.5 %) produced both large clostridial toxins detected by conventional methods. Ten more strains (4.5 %) had toxin A and B genes detectable by PCR. Eleven (5.0 %) variant strains (A−B+) were detected among the isolates studied and 10 strains (4.5 %) had the binary toxin genes (cdtA and cdtB).Keywords
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