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Association of Relapse of Clostridium difficile Disease with BI/NAP1/027
11 Oct 2012
Abstract excerpt
Recurrent Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) occurs in up to 35% of patients. Recurrences can be due to either relapse with the same strain or reinfection with another strain. In this study, multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis (MLVA) was performed on C. difficile isolates from patients with recurrent CDI to distinguish relapse from reinfection. In addition, univariate and multivariate analyses...
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