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Antimicrobial resistance, toxinotype, and genotypic profiling of Clostridium difficile isolates of swine origin.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Jul 2012
Fry Pamela R, Thakur Siddhartha, Abley Melanie, Gebreyes Wondwossen A
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The occurrence of Clostridium difficile infections in patients that do not fulfill the classical risk factors prompted us to investigate new risk factors of disease. The goal of this study was to characterize strains and associated antimicrobial resistance determinants of C. difficile isolated from swine raised in Ohio and North Carolina. Genotypic approaches used include PCR detection, toxinotyping, DNA...
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