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Toxigenic Clostridium difficile isolates from clinically significant diarrhoea in patients from a tertiary care centre

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES: Clostridium difficile is the primary cause of hospital-acquired colitis in patients receiving antibiotics. The pathogenicity of the organism is mainly due to the production of toxins. This study was conducted to investigate the presence of toxigenic C. difficile in the f...

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Autores principales: Singh, Meenakshi, Vaishnavi, Chetana, Kochhar, Rakesh, Mahmood, Safrun
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5674555/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29067987
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijmr.IJMR_192_16