Emergence of Clostridium difficile infection due to a new hypervirulent strain, polymerase chain reaction ribotype 078.

By A. Goorhuis, Dennis Bakker, J. Corver, S. Debast, C. Harmanus, D. Notermans, A. Bergwerff, F. W. Dekker, E. Kuijper. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2008

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Subfields: Infectious Diseases, Molecular Biology

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• The Changing Epidemiology of Clostridium difficile Infections (2010, background): “This ribotype is frequently found in farm animals and has been associated with community-associated CDI in another Dutch study (77).”
• Clinical Practice Guidelines for Clostridium difficile Infection in Adults and Children: 2017 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA). (2018, neutral): “For example, evidence of emergence of a virulent strain, ribotype 078, has been reported from the Netherlands [57].”