Epidemiology of Clostridium difficile in infants in Oxfordshire, UK: Risk factors for colonization and carriage, and genetic overlap with regional C. difficile infection strains

BACKGROUND: Approximately 30–40% of children <1 year of age are Clostridium difficile colonized, and may represent a reservoir for adult C. difficile infections (CDI). Risk factors for colonization with toxigenic versus non-toxigenic C. difficile strains and longitudinal acquisition dynamics in i...

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Autores principales: Stoesser, Nicole, Eyre, David W., Quan, T. Phuong, Godwin, Heather, Pill, Gemma, Mbuvi, Emily, Vaughan, Alison, Griffiths, David, Martin, Jessica, Fawley, Warren, Dingle, Kate E., Oakley, Sarah, Wanelik, Kazimierz, Finney, John M., Kachrimanidou, Melina, Moore, Catrin E., Gorbach, Sherwood, Riley, Thomas V., Crook, Derrick W., Peto, Tim E. A., Wilcox, Mark H., Walker, A. Sarah
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5559064/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28813461
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0182307

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