Clindamycin-resistant, toxin A-negative, toxin B-positive Clostridium difficile strains cause antibiotic-associated diarrhea among children hospitalized in a hematology unit

被引:7
作者
Pituch, H [1 ]
van Belkum, A [1 ]
van den Braak, N [1 ]
Obuch-Woszczatynski, P [1 ]
Sawicka-Grzelak, A [1 ]
Verbrugh, H [1 ]
Meisel-Mikolajczyk, F [1 ]
Luczak, M [1 ]
机构
[1] Med Univ Warsaw, Ctr Biostruct Res, Dept Med Microbiol, PL-02004 Warsaw, Poland
关键词
D O I
10.1046/j.1469-0691.2003.00700.x
中图分类号
R51 [传染病];
学科分类号
100401 ;
摘要
引用
收藏
页码:903 / 904
页数:2
相关论文
共 12 条
[1]  
al-Barrak A, 1999, Can Commun Dis Rep, V25, P65
[2]   Pathogenesis of Clostridium difficile infection [J].
Borriello, SP .
JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL CHEMOTHERAPY, 1998, 41 :13-19
[3]   SEROGROUP-F STRAINS OF CLOSTRIDIUM-DIFFICILE PRODUCE TOXIN-B BUT NOT TOXIN-A [J].
DEPITRE, C ;
DELMEE, M ;
AVESANI, V ;
LHARIDON, R ;
ROELS, A ;
POPOFF, M ;
CORTHIER, G .
JOURNAL OF MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY, 1993, 38 (06) :434-441
[4]   Antibiotics and Clostridium difficile [J].
Gorbach, SL .
NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE, 1999, 341 (22) :1690-1691
[5]   Epidemics of diarrhea caused by a clindamycin-resistant strain of Clostridium difficile in four hospitals. [J].
Johnson, S ;
Samore, MH ;
Farrow, KA ;
Killgore, GE ;
Tenover, FC ;
Lyras, D ;
Rood, JI ;
DeGirolami, P ;
Baltch, AL ;
Rafferty, ME ;
Pear, SM ;
Gerding, DN .
NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE, 1999, 341 (22) :1645-1651
[6]   Fatal pseudomembranous colitis associated with a variant Clostridium difficile strain not detected by toxin a immunoassay [J].
Johnson, S ;
Kent, SA ;
O'Leary, KJ ;
Merrigan, MM ;
Sambol, SP ;
Peterson, LR ;
Gerding, DN .
ANNALS OF INTERNAL MEDICINE, 2001, 135 (06) :434-438
[7]   Single toxin detection is inadequate to diagnose Clostridium difficile diarrhea in pediatric patients [J].
Kader, HA ;
Piccoli, DA ;
Jawad, AF ;
McGowan, AL ;
Maller, ES .
GASTROENTEROLOGY, 1998, 115 (06) :1329-1334
[8]  
Kato H, 1999, FEMS MICROBIOL LETT, V175, P197, DOI 10.1111/j.1574-6968.1999.tb13620.x
[9]   Nosocomial outbreak of Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhoea due to a clindamycin-resistant enterotoxin A-negative strain [J].
Kuijper, EJ ;
de Weerdt, J ;
Kato, H ;
Kato, N ;
van Dam, AP ;
van der Vorm, ER ;
Weel, J ;
van Rheenen, C ;
Dankert, J .
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY & INFECTIOUS DISEASES, 2001, 20 (08) :528-534
[10]   Pseudomembranous colitis caused by a toxin A- B+ strain of Clostridium difficile [J].
Limaye, AP ;
Turgeon, DK ;
Cookson, BT ;
Fritsche, TR .
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY, 2000, 38 (04) :1696-1697