Spread and Epidemiology of Clostridium difficile Polymerase Chain Reaction Ribotype 027/Toxinotype III in The Netherlands
Author(s) -
Abraham Goorhuis,
Tjallie van der Kooi,
Norbert Vaessen,
Friedo W. Dekker,
Ronald van den Berg,
Céline Harmanus,
Susan van den Hof,
Daan W. Notermans,
Ed J. Kuijper
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
clinical infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44
H-Index - 336
eISSN - 1537-6591
pISSN - 1058-4838
DOI - 10.1086/520984
Subject(s) - medicine , ribotyping , epidemiology , clostridium difficile , outbreak , odds ratio , polymerase chain reaction , incidence (geometry) , diarrhea , molecular epidemiology , clostridiaceae , microbiology and biotechnology , virology , antibiotics , biology , genotype , toxin , gene , biochemistry , physics , optics
After reports of emerging outbreaks in Canada and the United States, Clostridium difficile-associated disease (CDAD) due to polymerase chain reaction ribotype 027 was detected in 2 medium-to-large hospitals in The Netherlands in 2005.
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