Clostridium difficile plasmid isolation as an epidemiologic tool
Lee, S.; Peterson, L.; Fekety, F. Robert; Clabots, C.; Gerding, D.; Mulligan, M.; Schaberg, Dennis R.; Kwok, R.
1988-04
Citation
Clabots, C.; Lee, S.; Gerding, D.; Mulligan, M.; Kwok, R.; Schaberg, D.; Fekety, R.; Peterson, L.; (1988). " Clostridium difficile plasmid isolation as an epidemiologic tool." European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases 7(2): 312-315. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/47897>
Abstract
A large hospital outbreak of Clostridium difficile diarrhea at the Minneapolis Veterans Administration Medical Center (MVAMC) was studied by plasmid profile typing. Plasmids were obtained from 30 (37 %) of 82 clinical isolates from MVAMC patients and 10 (67 %) of 15 non-MVAMC isolates. While bacteriophage plus bacteriocin typing and polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE) plus bacterial agglutination typing proved more universally applicable, plasmid profiles may be useful for tracing isolated epidemic outbreaks, reinfections and relapses caused by plasmid-bearing strains.Publisher
Springer-Verlag; Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn Verlagsgesellschaft mbH
ISSN
1435-4373 0934-9723
Other DOIs
PMID
3134239
Types
Article
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