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Carriage of Clostridium difficile in free-living South American coati (Nasua nasua) in Brazil.
Anaerobe - 1 Dec 2014
Silva Rodrigo Otávio Silveira, Ribeiro de Almeida Lara, Oliveira Junior Carlos Augusto, de Magalhães Soares Danielle Ferreira, Pereira Pedro Lúcio Lithg, Rupnik Maja, Lobato Francisco Carlos Faria
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The objective of this study was to isolate and characterize Clostridium difficile strains in stool samples from a wild urban mammal, a South American coati (Nasua nasua) in Brazil. Forty-six free-living N. nasua were trapped, and stool samples were collected. C. difficile was isolated from three (6.5%) sampled animals, two strains were toxigenic (A+B+CDT-, PCR ribotype 014/020 and 106) and one was non toxigenic...
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