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Ribeiro RL, Machry L, Brazil JMV, Ramos TMV, Avelar KES, Pereira MM. Technical improvement to prevent DNA degradation of Leptospira spp. in pulsed field gel electrophoresis. Lett Appl Microbiol 2009; 49:289-91. [PMID: 19500244 DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-765x.2009.02641.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Leptospirosis is a public health problem. Infection with pathogenic Leptospira occurs by exposure to many environments and is traditionally associated with occupational risk activities. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis was used to investigate the epidemiological relatedness among Leptospira isolates. However, analysis by PFGE yielded inconclusive data as a result of extensive DNA degradation. This degradation can be significantly reduced by the inclusion of thiourea in the electrophoresis buffer, improving the analysis of DNA banding patterns.
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- R L Ribeiro
- WHO/PAHO Collaborating Center and National Reference Laboratory for Leptospirosis, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz/FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Terhes G, Brazier JS, Urbán E, Sóki J, Nagy E. Distribution of Clostridium difficile PCR ribotypes in regions of Hungary. J Med Microbiol 2006; 55:279-282. [PMID: 16476791 DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.46141-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The objective of this survey was to determine the distribution of Clostridium difficile PCR ribotypes present across three Hungarian geographical regions. A total of 105 isolates of C. difficile from diarrhoeal faeces of both inpatients and outpatients were examined. The toxigenic status of the strains was determined by PCR for the tcdA, tcdB, cdtA and cdtB genes in Szeged (Hungary), while strains were subjected to PCR ribotyping in Cardiff (UK). A total of 31 ribotypes were detected among the 105 C. difficile isolates tested. Five PCR ribotypes were distinct from all previously described types, suggesting that they are new. The most common types in Hungary, during the period examined, were PCR ribotype 014 (24.8 %) and PCR ribotype 002 (13.3 %). The distribution of PCR ribotypes differed in the various Hungarian regions: PCR ribotype 012 was frequent (20.7 %) in South Hungary, whereas this type was rare in the Budapest region and was not common to West Hungary. In West Hungary and the Budapest region, PCR ribotype 014 was most frequent (28.9 and 29 %, respectively).
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- Gabriella Terhes
- Institute of Clinical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Szeged, H-6725 Szeged, Hungary
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- Anaerobe Reference Laboratory, NPHS Microbiology Cardiff, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff CF14 4XW, UK
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- Institute of Clinical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Szeged, H-6725 Szeged, Hungary
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- Institute of Clinical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Szeged, H-6725 Szeged, Hungary
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- Institute of Clinical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Szeged, H-6725 Szeged, Hungary
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McFarland LV. Alternative treatments for Clostridium difficile disease: what really works? J Med Microbiol 2005; 54:101-111. [PMID: 15673502 DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.45753-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 128] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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Vancomycin and metronidazole have been used for treating Clostridium difficile-associated disease (CDAD) for the past 25 years, but approximately 20 % of patients develop recurrent disease. The increasing incidence of nosocomial outbreaks, cases of recurrent CDAD and other complications (toxic megacolon, ileus, sepsis) has fuelled the search for different types of treatments. As the understanding of the pathogenesis of this disease has matured, newer treatment strategies that take advantage of these mechanisms have been developed. This review will describe such treatments and examine the evidence for each strategy.
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- Lynne V McFarland
- University of Washington, HSR&D, 1100 Olive Street, #1400, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
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Alonso R, Martín A, Peláez T, Marín M, Rodríguez-Creixéms M, Bouza E. An improved protocol for pulsed-field gel electrophoresis typing of Clostridium difficile. J Med Microbiol 2005; 54:155-157. [PMID: 15673509 DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.45808-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) is the 'gold standard' technique for bacterial typing and has proved to be discriminatory and reproducible for typing Clostridium difficile. Nevertheless, a high proportion of strains are non-typable by this technique due to the degradation of the DNA during the process. The introduction of several modifications in the PFGE standard procedure increased typability from 40% (90 isolates) to 100% (220 isolates) while maintaining the high degree of discrimination and reproducibility of the technique.
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- R Alonso
- Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Hospital General Universitario ''Gregorio Marañón'', C/Doctor Esquerdo, 46, 28007 Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Hospital General Universitario ''Gregorio Marañón'', C/Doctor Esquerdo, 46, 28007 Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Hospital General Universitario ''Gregorio Marañón'', C/Doctor Esquerdo, 46, 28007 Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Hospital General Universitario ''Gregorio Marañón'', C/Doctor Esquerdo, 46, 28007 Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Hospital General Universitario ''Gregorio Marañón'', C/Doctor Esquerdo, 46, 28007 Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Hospital General Universitario ''Gregorio Marañón'', C/Doctor Esquerdo, 46, 28007 Madrid, Spain
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Lemee L, Dhalluin A, Pestel-Caron M, Lemeland JF, Pons JL. Multilocus sequence typing analysis of human and animal Clostridium difficile isolates of various toxigenic types. J Clin Microbiol 2004; 42:2609-17. [PMID: 15184441 PMCID: PMC427854 DOI: 10.1128/jcm.42.6.2609-2617.2004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 116] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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A multilocus sequence typing (MLST) scheme was developed to study the genetic relationships and population structure of 72 Clostridium difficile isolates from various hosts, geographic sources, PCR ribotypes, and toxigenic types (determined by PCR targeting tcdA and tcdB genes). MLST was performed by DNA sequence analysis of seven housekeeping genes (aroE, ddl, dutA, tpi, recA, gmk, and sodA). The number of alleles ranged from five (dutA and ddl) to eleven (recA). Allelic profiles allowed the definition of 34 different sequence types (STs). These STs lacked correlation with geographic source but were well correlated to toxigenic type. The dendrogram generated from a matrix of pairwise genetic distances showed that animal isolates did not constitute a distinct lineage from human isolates and that there was no hypervirulent lineage within the population of toxigenic human isolates (isolates recovered from pseudomembranous colitis and antibiotic-associated diarrhea did not cluster in distinct lineages). However, A(-) B(+) variant isolates shared the same ST that appeared as a divergent lineage in the population studied, indicating a single evolutionary origin. The population structure was further examined by analysis of allelic polymorphism. The dendrogram generated from composite sequence-based analysis revealed a homogeneous population associated with three divergent lineages, one of which was restricted to A(-) B(+) variant isolates. C. difficile exhibited a clonal population structure, as revealed by the estimation of linkage disequilibrium (Ia) between loci. The analysis of alleles within clonal complexes estimated that point mutation generated new alleles at a frequency eightfold higher than recombinational exchange, and the congruence of the dendrograms generated from separate housekeeping loci confirmed the mutational evolution of this species.
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- Ludovic Lemee
- U.F.R. Médecine-Pharmacie de Rouen, G.R.A.M. (EA 2656), 22 Boulevard Gambetta, F-76183 Rouen Cedex, France
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Murase T, Nagato M, Shirota K, Katoh H, Otsuki K. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis-based subtyping of DNA degradation-sensitive Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar Livingstone and serovar Cerro isolates obtained from a chicken layer farm. Vet Microbiol 2004; 99:139-43. [PMID: 15019105 DOI: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2003.11.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2003] [Revised: 11/19/2003] [Accepted: 11/26/2003] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Salmonella enterica serovar subsp. enterica Livingstone and serovar Cerro isolates from a commercial egg-producing farm, which had previously been untypeable by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) because of DNA degradation during the PFGE process, successfully gave banding patterns using electrophoresis buffer supplemented with 50 microM thiourea. By PFGE in the presence of thiourea, DNA degradation-sensitive S. enterica serovar Cerro isolates from the commercial egg-producing farm were found to be genetically unrelated to S. enterica serovar Cerro isolates that gave the patterns in the absence of thiourea. Forty-five of 50 (90%) S. enterica serovar Livingstone isolates from the farm showed arbitrarily designated XbaI-digested patterns X1 and X2 that were distinguished by one-band difference and had an identical BlnI-digested pattern. In one of the two layer houses in the farm, the numbers of isolates having the pattern X2 increased from 57% in 1997 to 89% in 1998, whereas virtually all the isolates obtained from the other house in the same period showed the profile X1. This suggests that strains having the pattern X2 might have an advantage to preferentially colonize in the former house.
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- Toshiyuki Murase
- Faculty of Agriculture, Laboratory of Veterinary Microbiology, Tottori University, 4-101 Koyama, Tottori 680-8553, Japan.
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Lee YJ, Yu WK, Heo TR. Identification and screening for antimicrobial activity against Clostridium difficile of Bifidobacterium and Lactobacillus species isolated from healthy infant faeces. Int J Antimicrob Agents 2003; 21:340-6. [PMID: 12672580 DOI: 10.1016/s0924-8579(02)00389-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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The antimicrobial activity against Clostridium difficile of 109 lactic acid bacteria (LAB) isolated from 32 healthy Korean infants was measured. The ability to show similar activity against Escherichia coli O157:H7 and Staphylococcus aureus was also looked for. Twelve of the 109 LAB showed activity against C. difficile and 19 strains were active against E. coli O157:H7, but none against S. aureus. Four strains had antimicrobial activity against both C. difficile and E. coli O157:H7. Of the 12 strains that had activity against C. difficile, four strains were excluded as Streptococcus species, while the other eight were identified using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assays using group-specific primers designed from the nucleotide sequences of the 16S rDNA and internal transcribed spacer (ITS) regions of the Bifidobacterium and Lactobacillus species. Based on the sequencing results, the eight strains screened were identified as Bifidobacterium infantis and Lactobacillus salivarius.
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- Yoon-Jong Lee
- Department of Biological Engineering, Inha University, Yonghyun-dong 253, Nam-gu, Inchon 402-751, South Korea
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Alonso R, Gros S, Peláez T, García-de-Viedma D, Rodríguez-Créixems M, Bouza E. Molecular analysis of relapse vs re-infection in HIV-positive patients suffering from recurrent Clostridium difficile associated diarrhoea. J Hosp Infect 2001; 48:86-92. [PMID: 11428873 DOI: 10.1053/jhin.2001.0943] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Recurrence is a major complication of Clostridium difficile associated diarrhoea, especially in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) positive patients, and it is important to distinguish between relapse and re-infection in recurrent episodes. The aim of our study was to analyse C. difficile isolates obtained from HIV-positive patients with recurrent diarrhoea in order to distinguish between relapse and re-infection. This analysis was based on the study of DNA similarities among isolates obtained from different episodes within each patient. Relapses occurred in 64% of patients, 32% suffered re-infections and a combination of relapse plus re-infection was seen in 4%. DNA typing methods can be useful tools to characterize recurrent episodes of C. difficile associated disease.
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- R Alonso
- Servicio de Microbiología y Enfermedades Infecciosas, Hospital General Universitario 'Gregorio Marañón', Madrid, Spain.
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Cohen SH, Tang YJ, Silva J. Molecular typing methods for the epidemiological identification of Clostridium difficile strains. Expert Rev Mol Diagn 2001; 1:61-70. [PMID: 11901801 DOI: 10.1586/14737159.1.1.61] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Toxigenic Clostridium difficile is the etiologic agent of C. difficile-associated diarrhea (CDAD), the most common cause of nosocomial diarrhea. Cross-infection between patients and transmission through the environment and medical personnel are important factors in the acquisition of CDAD. In order to understand differences in epidemiology and pathogenesis, a number of typing schemes have been developed. We will review the typing methods used to study the epidemiology of C. difficile infections and how they have evolved from a phenotypic identification to state of the art molecular methods, detecting genetic polymorphisms among strains. These molecular methods include PCR-based methods (arbitrarily primed-PCR [AP-PCR] and PCR ribotyping), restriction endonuclease analysis (REA) and pulse field gel electrophoresis (PFGE). The application, usefulness and feasibility of these methods are compared and discussed. Finally, the role of genomics as a tool to investigate CDAD is introduced.
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- S H Cohen
- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious and Immunologic Diseases, University of California, Davis Medical Center, Patient Services and Support Building, Suite 500, 4150 V St., Sacramento, CA 95817, USA.
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Kato H, Kato N, Watanabe K, Yamamoto T, Suzuki K, Ishigo S, Kunihiro S, Nakamura I, Killgore GE, Nakamura S. Analysis of Clostridium difficile isolates from nosocomial outbreaks at three hospitals in diverse areas of Japan. J Clin Microbiol 2001; 39:1391-5. [PMID: 11283061 PMCID: PMC87944 DOI: 10.1128/jcm.39.4.1391-1395.2001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Clostridium difficile isolates recovered from patients with C. difficile-associated diarrhea (CDAD) at three hospitals located in diverse areas of Japan were analyzed by three typing systems, PCR ribotyping, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE), and Western immunoblotting. At the three hospitals examined, a single PCR ribotype strain (type smz) was predominant and accounted for 22 (65%) of 34, 18 (64%) of 28, and 11 (44%) of 25 isolates, respectively. All of the 51 isolates that represented PCR ribotype smz were nontypeable by PFGE because of DNA degradation. Since the type smz strain did not react with any of the antisera against 10 different serogroups (A, B, C, D, F, G, H, I, K, and X), we prepared a new antiserum against a type smz isolate. All 51 type smz isolates presented identical banding patterns, reacting with the newly prepared antiserum (designated subserogroup JP-0 of serogroup JP). These results were compared with those of a strain from a hospital outbreak that occurred in New York, which has been identified as type J9 by restriction enzyme analysis and type 01/A by arbitrarily primed PCR but was nontypeable by PFGE because of DNA degradation. This strain was reported to be epidemic at multiple hospitals in the United States. The J9 strain represented a PCR ribotype pattern different from that of a type smz strain and was typed as subserogroup G-1 of serogroup G by immunoblot analysis. A single outbreak type causing nosocomial CDAD in Japan was found to be different from the strain causing multiple outbreaks in the United States, even though the outbreak strains from the two countries were nontypeable by PFGE because of DNA degradation.
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- H Kato
- Department of Bacteriology, School of Medicine, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa 920-8640, Japan.
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Corkill JE, Graham R, Hart CA, Stubbs S. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis of degradation-sensitive DNAs from Clostridium difficile PCR ribotype 1 strains. J Clin Microbiol 2000; 38:2791-2. [PMID: 10878091 PMCID: PMC87036 DOI: 10.1128/jcm.38.7.2791-2792.2000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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- J E Corkill
- Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Department of Medical Microbiology, Prescot Street Liverpool L7 8XP Merseyside, United Kingdom.
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Fukui K, Kato N, Kato H, Watanabe K, Tatematsu N. Incidence of Prevotella intermedia and Prevotella nigrescens carriage among family members with subclinical periodontal disease. J Clin Microbiol 1999; 37:3141-5. [PMID: 10488167 PMCID: PMC85513 DOI: 10.1128/jcm.37.10.3141-3145.1999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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We established a typing system for Prevotella intermedia and Prevotella nigrescens using the combination of PCR ribotyping and arbitrarily primed PCR (AP-PCR) fingerprinting and applied this system to the study of intrafamilial incidence of these species in the oral cavity. PCR ribotyping followed by subtyping by AP-PCR fingerprinting was applied to each type strain of P. intermedia and P. nigrescens and 54 isolates (32 isolates of P. intermedia and 24 isolates of P. nigrescens) from extraoral infections, resulting in an excellent discriminatory power (discrimination index, 0.99) for both species. A total of 18 subjects from six families, with the subjects from each family comprising the mother, the father, and a child who had subclinical early-stage to moderate adult periodontitis or simple gingivitis and who carried P. intermedia or P. nigrescens, or both, were enrolled in the study of intrafamilial carriage. When 20 colonies per specimen of subgingival plaque, if available, were picked from primary culture, 115 P. intermedia and 178 P. nigrescens isolates were recovered from the 18 subjects. Among the subjects studied, family members shared the same subtype strain(s) but non-family members did not. Multiple subtypes were found in 8 (57%) of the 14 P. nigrescens-positive subjects but in only 3 (27%) of the 11 P. intermedia-positive subjects; the difference was, however, not statistically significant (P = 0.14). These results suggest that the combination of PCR ribotyping and AP-PCR fingerprinting is well suited for the epidemiological study of P. intermedia and P. nigrescens and that each family seems to carry a distinct subtype(s) of these species.
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- K Fukui
- Institute of Anaerobic Bacteriology, Gifu University School of Medicine, Gifu 500-8705, Japan
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Stubbs SL, Brazier JS, O'Neill GL, Duerden BI. PCR targeted to the 16S-23S rRNA gene intergenic spacer region of Clostridium difficile and construction of a library consisting of 116 different PCR ribotypes. J Clin Microbiol 1999; 37:461-3. [PMID: 9889244 PMCID: PMC84342 DOI: 10.1128/jcm.37.2.461-463.1999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 437] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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A reference library of types of Clostridium difficile has been constructed by PCR ribotyping isolates (n = 2,030) from environmental (n = 89), hospital (n = 1,386), community practitioner (n = 395), veterinary (n = 27), and reference (n = 133) sources. The library consists of 116 distinct types identified on the basis of differences in profiles generated with PCR primers designed to amplify the 16S-23S rRNA gene intergenic spacer region. Isolates from 55% of infections in hospitals in the United Kingdom belonged to one ribotype (type 1), but this type was responsible for only 7. 5% of community infections.
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- S L Stubbs
- Anaerobe Reference Unit, Department of Medical Microbiology and Public Health Laboratory, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, United Kingdom
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