Monteiro Alexandre de Almeida, Pires Renata Neto, Persson Søren, Rodrigues Filho Edison Moraes, Pasqualotto Alessandro Comarú
PPG Patologia, Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
PPG Patologia, Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil; Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
Braz J Infect Dis. 2014 Nov-Dec;18(6):672-4. doi: 10.1016/j.bjid.2014.08.004. Epub 2014 Oct 11.
Toxigenic strains of Clostridium difficile may be disseminating. Here we prospectively screened patients with nosocomial diarrhoea in two hospitals in Brazil. To identify C. difficile polymerase chain reaction ribotypes 027/078 strains, we used high resolution melting and multiplex polymerase chain reaction. Among 116 screened patients, 11 were positive for C. difficile. The polymerase chain reaction ribotypes 027/078 strains were not identified in this study.
艰难梭菌的产毒菌株可能正在传播。在此,我们对巴西两家医院的医院获得性腹泻患者进行了前瞻性筛查。为鉴定艰难梭菌聚合酶链反应核糖体分型027/078菌株,我们使用了高分辨率熔解曲线分析和多重聚合酶链反应。在116名接受筛查的患者中,11名艰难梭菌检测呈阳性。本研究未鉴定出聚合酶链反应核糖体分型027/078菌株。