Advances in the Microbiome: Applications to Clostridium difficile Infection

EP Culligan, RD Sleator - Journal of clinical medicine, 2016 - mdpi.com
Clostridium difficile is a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, causing over
400,000 infections and approximately 29,000 deaths in the United States alone each year …

Nosocomial transmission of Clostridium difficile ribotype 027 in a Chinese hospital, 2012–2014, traced by whole genome sequencing

H Jia, P Du, H Yang, Y Zhang, J Wang, W Zhang… - BMC genomics, 2016 - Springer
Background The rapid spread of Clostridium difficile NAP1/BI/027 (C. difficile 027) has
become one of the leading threats of healthcare-associated infections worldwide. However …

Editorial Commentary: Whole-Genome Sequencing of Clostridium difficile: Exquisitely Sensitive but Not Yet Optimally Applied

DN Gerding - Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2016 - academic.oup.com
The development of exquisitely sensitive whole-genome sequencing (WGS) of Clostridium
difficile has ushered in the opportunity to untangle the complex transmission epidemiology …

[PDF][PDF] Epidemiology of Clostridium difficile infections in the Netherlands and Europe: implications for surveillance and control

SM Dorp - Euro Surveill, 2016 - scholarlypublications …
Sofie van Dorp was born in Overveen, the Netherlands on August 9, 1985. She completed
her secondary school (gymnasium) education at the Kennemer Lyceum in Overveen in …