510. First Environmental Investigation of Toxigenic Clostridium difficile Strains in Texas Hospitals

BACKGROUND: Clostridium difficile is the most common cause of infectious diarrhea in hospitalized patients in the developed world and an emerging pathogen in developing countries due to increased use of broad-spectrum antibiotics worldwide. Spores of toxigenic C. difficile can survive and disseminat...

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Autores principales: Alam, M Jahangir, Begum, Khurshida, McPharson, Jacob, Miranda, Julie, Hossain, Feroz, Poblete, Kelley, Garey, Kevin W
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6253526/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofy210.519

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6253526/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofy210.519

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