Toxigenic profiles of clinical Clostridioides difficile in public and private healthcare settings in Gauteng, South Africa
Introduction: Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) is a serious healthcare-associated infection causing life-threatening infectious diarrhea in hospitalized patients accounting for 20% to 30% of all diarrhoea cases in humans. Clostridioides difficile's main virulence factors are toxin A and...
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| Main Authors: | Dr Ben Prinsloo, Miss Hlambani Shirinda, Prof Anthony Smith, Prof Marthie Ehlers |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2025-03-01
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| Series: | International Journal of Infectious Diseases |
| Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1201971224008208 |
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