Nosocomial Diarrhoea in the Elderly Due to EnterotoxigenicClostridium perfringens
| Autor: | Haruo Watanabe, Tsutomu Hatakeyama, Akihito Wada, Yoshishige Masuda, Takashi Inamatsu, Yoshitoki Yanagawa, Makiko Fukayama |
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| Rok vydání: | 1996 |
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Diarrhea
Serotype Clostridium perfringens Immunology Enterotoxin Biology medicine.disease_cause Hospitals Special Microbiology Disease Outbreaks Enterotoxins Virology medicine Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis Humans Clostridiaceae Aged Cross Infection Outbreak biology.organism_classification Latex fixation test Clostridium Infections medicine.symptom Latex Fixation Tests |
| Zdroj: | Microbiology and Immunology. 40:767-771 |
| ISSN: | 0385-5600 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/j.1348-0421.1996.tb01139.x |
| Popis: | To diagnose sporadic diarrhoea due to Clostridium perfringens infection, faecal specimens from elderly patients were examined directly for C. perfringens enterotoxin using reverse passive latex agglutination assay, and then cultured for this organism. C. perfringens isolates from those samples were grouped by slide agglutination and by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE). Fifty of the 60 isolates agglutinated with newly raised antiserum WX2 and 38 shared the same genomic PFGE pattern. Characteristics of the epidemics and experimental data suggest that the diarrhoea was caused by a nosocomial spread of C. perfringens, and not by a food-borne outbreak. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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