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
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2025-03-01
Series:International Journal of Infectious Diseases
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1201971224008208
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