Concomitance of cytotoxigenic and non-cytotoxigenic Clostridium difficile in stool specimens
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Concomitance of cytotoxigenic and non-cytotoxigenic Clostridium difficile in stool specimens.
Six patients with antibiotic-associated diarrhea and one patient with diarrhea unrelated to antibiotic use yielded both cytotoxigenic and non-cytotoxigenic isolates of Clostridium difficile from the same stool specimens. In addition, these isolates were shown to be pathogenic and nonpathogenic, respectively, in the hamster model of antibiotic-associated colitis. These data imply that more than ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Microbiology
سال: 1983
ISSN: 0095-1137,1098-660X
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.18.4.1006-1007.1983