A Hospital Outbreak of Clostridium difficile Disease Associated with Isolates Carrying Binary Toxin Genes
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- 15 January 2005
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Clinical Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 40 (2), 265-272
- https://doi.org/10.1086/427113
Abstract
Introduction. The binary toxin genes cdt and cdtB have been detected in ∼5% of Clostridium difficile strains. Severe C. difficile disease (CDD) may bKeywords
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