Open AccessC. difficile toxins A and B from the clinician's viewpoint
Author(s) -
Naira Gyulazyan,
O.F. Belaya,
В А Малов,
S. G Pak
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
èpidemiologiâ i infekcionnye bolezni
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2411-3026
pISSN - 1560-9529
DOI - 10.17816/eid40789
Subject(s) - pseudomembranous colitis , diarrhea , c difficile , etiology , clostridium difficile , traveler's diarrhea , medicine , disease , intensive care medicine , colitis , antibiotics , microbiology and biotechnology , immunology , biology
To date, C. difficile is considered as an etiological factor in pseudomembranous colitis and antibiotic-associated diarrhea as well as the main cause of nosocomial diarrhea spread mainly in economically developed countries. The complexity of laboratory and experimental studies of infection is what the microbe cannot be genetically manipulated. At the same time, the most of hospital and municipal laboratories have no the possibility to carry out research on detection C. difficile toxins, that limits the resource of real estimation of the spread of the disease in the Russian Federation.