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Antibiotic Resistance and Toxin Production of Clostridium difficile Isolates from the Hospitalized Patients in a Large Hospital in Florida

Clostridium difficile is an important cause of nosocomial acquired antibiotic-associated diarrhea causing an estimated 453,000 cases with 29,000 deaths yearly in the U.S. Both antibiotic resistance and toxin expression of C. difficile correlate with the severity of C. difficile infection (CDI). In t...

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Autores principales: Peng, Zhong, Addisu, Anteneh, Alrabaa, Sally, Sun, Xingmin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5744170/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29312258
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2017.02584