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[Prevalence of Clostridium difficile in the gastrointestinal tract of hospitalized children under two years of age].
Medycyna doswiadczalna i mikrobiologia - 1 Jan 2010
Wultańska Dorota, Obuch-Woszczatyński Piotr, Banaszkiewicz Aleksandra, Radzikowski Andrzej, Pituch Hanna, Młynarczyk Grazyna
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The aim of this study was to determine prevalence of C. difficile in the gastrointestinal tract of hospitalized children under two years of age and a comparison of phenotypic and genotypic features. Hundred and seventy-eight samples collected from the faecal samples of children aged 2 months to 2 years, hospitalized in 2003-2006 were examined for the presence of toxin A/B of C. difficile. Toxigenicity of strains...
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