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Clostridium difficile Ribotype Does Not Predict Severe Infection

Author(s) -

Seth T. Walk,

Dejan Micić,

Ruchika Jain,

Eugene Siu Kai Lo,

Itishree Trivedi,

Eugene Liu,

Luay M. Almassalha,

Sarah Ewing,

Cathrin Ring,

Andrzej T. Gałecki,

Mary A.M. Rogers,

Laraine Washer,

Duane W. Newton,

Preeti Malani,

Vincent B. Young,

David M. Aronoff

Publication year - 2012

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 - 10.1093/cid/cis786

Subject(s) - clostridium difficile , medicine , ribotyping , white blood cell , polymerase chain reaction , gastroenterology , microbiology and biotechnology , biology , gene , antibiotics , genetics

Studies of Clostridium difficile outbreaks suggested that certain ribotypes (eg, 027 and 078) cause more severe disease than other ribotypes. A growing number of studies challenge the validity of this hypothesis.

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