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Clonal dissemination of a toxin-A-negative/toxin-B-positive Clostridium difficile strain from patients with antibiotic-associated diarrhea in Poland.
Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases - 1 Aug 2001
Pituch H, van den Braak N, van Leeuwen W, van Belkum A, Martirosian G, Obuch-Woszczatyński P, Łuczak M, Meisel-Mikołajczyk F
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: To determine the incidence of toxin-A-negative/toxin-B-positive Clostridium difficile strains and their genetic relatedness in the feces of patients suffering from antibiotic-associated diarrhea (AAD) in Polish hospitals. METHODS: C. difficile strains were cultured from patients' stool samples. The present study characterises these strains with respect to their cytopathogenicity on McCoy cells and the...
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