Hypervirulent Clostridium difficile strains in hospitalized patients, Canada

Hypervirulent Clostridium difficile strains in hospitalized patients, Canada

To determine the incidence rate of infections with North American pulsed-field types 7 and 8 (NAP7/NAP8) strains of Clostrodium difficile, ribotype 078, and toxinotype V strains, we examined data collected for the Canadian Nosocomial Infections Surveillance Program (CNISP) CDI surveillance project d...

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Veröffentlicht in:Emerging infectious diseases 2010-04, Vol.16 (4), p.678-681
Hauptverfasser: MULVEY, M.R, BOYD, D.A, GRAVEL, D, HUTCHINSON, J, KELLY, S, MCGEER, A, MOORE, D, SIMOR, A, SUH, K.N, TAYLOR, G
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Sprache:eng
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Aged
bacteria
Biological and medical sciences
Canada - epidemiology
Clostridium difficile
Clostridium difficile - genetics
Clostridium difficile - pathogenicity
community-onset
Cross infection
Cross Infection - epidemiology
Cross Infection - microbiology
Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field
Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous - epidemiology
Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous - microbiology
Female
Genes, Bacterial - genetics
Health aspects
Hospital patients
Humans
hypervirulent
Incidence
Male
Medical sciences
Middle Aged
Miscellaneous
Molecular Sequence Data
molecular typing
Nosocomial infections
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Population Surveillance
Public health. Hygiene
Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine
pulsed-field gel electrophoresis
Ribotyping
Sequence Analysis, DNA
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Zusammenfassung:To determine the incidence rate of infections with North American pulsed-field types 7 and 8 (NAP7/NAP8) strains of Clostrodium difficile, ribotype 078, and toxinotype V strains, we examined data collected for the Canadian Nosocomial Infections Surveillance Program (CNISP) CDI surveillance project during 2004-2008. Incidence of human infections increased from 0.5% in 2004/2005 to 1.6% in 2008.
ISSN:1080-6040
1080-6059
DOI:10.3201/eid1604.091152