کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
3374121 1219320 2006 7 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Incidence and characterization of Clostridium perfringens isolated from antibiotic-associated diarrhoeal patients: a prospective study in an Indian hospital
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری ایمنی شناسی و میکروب شناسی میکروبیولوژی و بیوتکنولوژی کاربردی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Incidence and characterization of Clostridium perfringens isolated from antibiotic-associated diarrhoeal patients: a prospective study in an Indian hospital
چکیده انگلیسی

SummaryClostridium perfringens has been reported as causing between 2–15% of all cases of antibiotic-associated diarrhoea (AAD), and may be diagnosed by detection of enterotoxin in faeces. A prospective study comprising 150 diarrhoeal patients and 100 non-diarrhoeal controls was undertaken to assess the incidence of C. perfringens-associated diarrhoea in an Indian hospital. Methods used included C. perfringens culture, reverse passive latex agglutination (RPLA) and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for detection of enterotoxin, and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay for the presence of enterotoxin gene. Attempts were made to type the isolates by multiplex PCR. Of the 150 diarrhoeal stool samples tested, 13 were culture positive. Of these, four were positive for C. perfringens enterotoxin by RPLA, two were positive by PCR and two were positive by RPLA and ELISA. Twenty-seven samples were positive for culture of C. perfringens in non-diarrhoeal controls but none were positive for enterotoxin either by RPLA or by PCR. The average incidence of C. perfringens AAD using these methods was 2.6%. Toxin typing showed that all the isolates belonged to type A. To conclude, the relatively low incidence of toxigenic C. perfringens suggests that enterotoxigenic C. perfringens is not a major cause of AAD in this population.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of Hospital Infection - Volume 63, Issue 3, July 2006, Pages 323–329
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