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Real-time PCR and typing of Clostridium difficile isolates colonizing mare-foal pairs.
Veterinary journal (London, England : 1997) - 1 Oct 2011
Magdesian K Gary, Leutenegger C M
Abstract excerpt
Clostridium difficile infection can occur in the dams of sick foals, but it is unknown if mares and foals share the same isolates. In this study, C. difficile isolates from fecal samples of 11 mares paired with 11 foals were genotyped by arbitrarily primed PCR; two mares and three foals in five mare-foal pairs had diarrhea. Fecal immunoassays were utilized to detect C. difficile common antigen and toxin A....
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