Hypervirulent Clostridium difficile Strains in Hospitalized Patients, Canada1

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Mulvey, Michael R. ; Boyd, David A. ; Gravel, Denise ; Hutchinson, Jim ; Kelly, Sharon ; McGeer, Allison ; Moore, Dorothy ; Simor, Andrew ; Suh, Kathryn N. ; Taylor, Geoff ; Weese, J. Scott ; Miller, Mark
• Corporate Authors:
  Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program
• Description:
  To determine the incidence rate of infections with North American pulsed-field types 7 and 8 (NAP7/NAP8) strains of Clostrodium difficile, ribotype 078, and toxinotype V strains, we examined data collected for the Canadian Nosocomial Infections Surveillance Program (CNISP) CDI surveillance project during 2004-2008. Incidence of human infections increased from 0.5% in 2004/2005 to 1.6% in 2008.
• Subjects:
  Aged Cross Infection Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous Female Genes, Bacterial Humans Incidence Male Middle Aged Molecular Sequence Data Polymerase Chain Reaction Population Surveillance Ribotyping Sequence Analysis, DNA

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• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 16(4):678-681.
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Canada
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  16
• Issue:
  4
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:ef474d51867515b74c144aea7e7e51c2a55d85f4adf6b78cc2f128ce1960f84c
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/18042/cdc_18042_DS1.pdf
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