The clinical and environmental spread and diversity of toxigenic Clostridium difficile diarrhea in the region of the Middle East.
Stool samples of 1822 hospitalized patients with nosocomial diarrhea and 100 environmental samples were collected at three teaching hospitals and PCR amplification of rRNA intergenic spacer regions (ISR) was conducted. Bacterial cytotoxicity was assayed by conducting three assays namely toxigeni...
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| Language: | English English |
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Southern Cross Publishing
2010
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| Online Access: | http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/17035/1/The%20clinical%20and%20environmental%20spread%20and%20diversity%20of%20toxigenic%20Clostridium%20difficile%20diarrhea%20in%20the%20region%20of%20the%20Middle%20East.pdf |