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Isolation of various genotypes of Clostridium difficile from patients and the environment in an oncology ward.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America - 1 May 1997
Cohen S H, Tang Y J, Muenzer J, Gumerlock P H, Silva J
Abstract excerpt
The epidemiology of Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea (CDAD) is not well defined in nonepidemic situations because precise biotyping techniques have only recently become available. Arbitrarily primed polymerase chain reaction (AP-PCR) was used to determine strain identity of C. difficile isolates recovered on our oncology ward, at an incidence rate of 0.84%. Twenty-one strains of C. difficile, which were...
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