Predominance and high antibiotic resistance of the emerging Clostridium difficile genotypes NAP(CR1) and NAP9 in a Costa Rican hospital over a 2-year period without outbreaks

Clostridium difficile is the major causative agent of nosocomial antibiotic-associated diarrhea. In a 2009 outbreak of C. difficile-associated diarrhea that was recorded in a major Costa Rican hospital, the hypervirulent NAP1 strain (45%) predominated together with a local genotype variant (NAP(CR1)...

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Autores principales: López-Ureña, Diana, Quesada-Gómez, Carlos, Montoya-Ramírez, Mónica, del Mar Gamboa-Coronado, María, Somogyi, Teresita, Rodríguez, César, Rodríguez-Cavallini, Evelyn
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4893543/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27165560
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/emi.2016.38

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4893543/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27165560
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/emi.2016.38

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