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Journal of Medical Microbiology — Volume 54, Issue 2

17 articles in this issue

Clostridium difficile

Poxton, Ian R

p. 97 https://doi.org/10.1099/jmm.0.45951-0

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Alternative treatments for Clostridium difficile disease: what really works?

Lynne V McFarland

p. 101–111 https://doi.org/10.1099/jmm.0.45753-0

Revised nomenclature of Clostridium difficile toxins and associated genes

Rupnik, Maja, Dupuy, Bruno, Fairweather, Neil F, Gerding, Dale N, Johnson, Stuart, Just, Ingo, Lyerly, David M, Popoff, Michel R et al.

p. 113 https://doi.org/10.1099/jmm.0.45810-0

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Quorum sensing in Clostridium difficile: analysis of a luxS-type signalling system

Glen P Carter, Des Purdy, Paul Williams, Nigel P Minton

p. 119–127 https://doi.org/10.1099/jmm.0.45817-0

Effect of phage infection on toxin production by Clostridium difficile

Goh, Shan, Chang, Barbara J, Riley, Thomas V

p. 129 https://doi.org/10.1099/jmm.0.45821-0

Generation of an erythromycin-sensitive derivative of Clostridium difficile strain 630 (630{Delta}erm) and demonstration that the conjugative transposon Tn916{Delta}E enters the genome of this strain at multiple sites

Hussain, Haitham A, Roberts, Adam P, Mullany, Peter

p. 137 https://doi.org/10.1099/jmm.0.45790-0

Detection of binary-toxin genes (cdtA and cdtB) among Clostridium difficile strains isolated from patients with C. difficile-associated diarrhoea (CDAD) in Poland

Pituch, Hanna, Rupnik, Maja, Obuch-Woszczatynski, Piotr, Grubesic, Ana, Meisel-Mikolajczyk, Felicja, Luczak, Miroslaw

p. 143 https://doi.org/10.1099/jmm.0.45799-0

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Prevalence and characteristics of bacteria and host factors in an outbreak situation of antibiotic-associated diarrhoea

Grit Ackermann, Susanne Thomalla, Frank Ackermann, Reiner Schaumann, Arne C Rodloff, Bernhard R Ruf

p. 149–153 https://doi.org/10.1099/jmm.0.45812-0

An improved protocol for pulsed-field gel electrophoresis typing of Clostridium difficile

Alonso, R, Martin, A, Pelaez, T, Marin, M, Rodriguez-Creixems, M, Bouza, E

p. 155 https://doi.org/10.1099/jmm.0.45808-0

Toxigenic status of Clostridium difficile in a large Spanish teaching hospital

Alonso, R, Martin, A, Pelaez, T, Marin, M, Rodriguez-Creixems, M, Bouza, E

p. 159 https://doi.org/10.1099/jmm.0.45809-0

PCR ribotyping of Clostridium difficile isolates originating from human and animal sources

Arroyo, Luis G, Kruth, Stephen A, Willey, Barbara M, Staempfli, Henry R, Low, Don E, Weese, J Scott

p. 163 https://doi.org/10.1099/jmm.0.45805-0

Typing by sequencing the slpA gene of Clostridium difficile strains causing multiple outbreaks in Japan

Kato, Haru, Yokoyama, Toshiyuki, Arakawa, Yoshichika

p. 167 https://doi.org/10.1099/jmm.0.45807-0

Coexistence of multiple PCR-ribotype strains of Clostridium difficile in faecal samples limits epidemiological studies

van den Berg, Renate J, Ameen, Hadi AA, Furusawa, Takahiro, Claas, Eric CJ, van der Vorm, Eric R, Kuijper, Ed J

p. 173 https://doi.org/10.1099/jmm.0.45825-0

Clinical features of Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhoea due to binary toxin (actin-specific ADP-ribosyltransferase)-producing strains

Barbut, Frederic, Decre, Dominique, Lalande, Valerie, Burghoffer, Beatrice, Noussair, Latifa, Gigandon, Anne, Espinasse, Florence, Raskine, Laurent et al.

p. 181 https://doi.org/10.1099/jmm.0.45804-0

Laboratory diagnosis of Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhoea: a plea for culture

Delmee, Michel, Van Broeck, Johan, Simon, Anne, Janssens, Michele, Avesani, Veronique

p. 187 https://doi.org/10.1099/jmm.0.45844-0

Immunological properties of surface proteins of Clostridium difficile

Pechine, Severine, Gleizes, Aude, Janoir, Claire, Gorges-Kergot, Roseline, Barc, Marie-Claude, Delmee, Michel, Collignon, Anne

p. 193 https://doi.org/10.1099/jmm.0.45800-0

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Bovine antibody-enriched whey to aid in the prevention of a relapse of Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhoea: preclinical and preliminary clinical data

Jaap T van Dissel, Nanda de Groot, Charles MH Hensgens, Sandra Numan, Ed J Kuijper, Peter Veldkamp, Jan van 't Wout

p. 197–205 https://doi.org/10.1099/jmm.0.45773-0