First report of Clostridium difficile NAP1/027 in a Mexican hospital

Clostridium difficile NAP1/ribotype 027 is associated with severe disease and high mortality rates. Our aim was to determine the prevalence of NAP1/ribotype 027 among C. difficile isolates in a tertiary care hospital, and review the main clinical data. We included 106 stool samples from 106 patients...

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Veröffentlicht in:	PloS one 2015-04, Vol.10 (4), p.e0122627
Hauptverfasser:	Camacho-Ortiz, Adrián, López-Barrera, Daniel, Hernández-García, Raúl, Galván-De Los Santos, Alejandra M, Flores-Treviño, Samantha M, Llaca-Díaz, Jorge M, Maldonado-Garza, Héctor J, Garza, Héctor J Maldonado, Bosques-Padilla, Francisco J, Garza-González, Elvira
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Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adolescent Adult Agar Aged Aged, 80 and over Anti-Bacterial Agents - therapeutic use Antibiotics Bacterial Proteins - isolation & purification Bacterial Toxins - isolation & purification Clinical isolates Clonal deletion Clostridium difficile Clostridium difficile - classification Clostridium difficile - genetics Clostridium difficile - isolation & purification Clostridium difficile - pathogenicity Deoxyribonucleic acid Diarrhea DNA Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous - drug therapy Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous - epidemiology Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous - microbiology Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous - mortality Enterotoxins - isolation & purification Epidemics Ethics Feces - chemistry Feces - microbiology Female Gel electrophoresis Gene deletion Genes Genes, Bacterial Humans Length of Stay Male Mexico - epidemiology Middle Aged Mortality Nosocomial infections Patients Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis Ribotyping Risk analysis Risk Factors Survival Analysis Systematic review Tertiary Care Centers Toxins
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