@article{mbs:/content/journal/jmm/10.1099/jmm.0.45799-0, author = "Pituch, Hanna and Rupnik, Maja and Obuch-Woszczatyński, Piotr and Grubesic, Ana and Meisel-Mikołajczyk, Felicja and Łuczak, Mirosław", title = "Detection of binary-toxin genes (cdtA and cdtB) among Clostridium difficile strains isolated from patients with C. difficile-associated diarrhoea (CDAD) in Poland", journal= "Journal of Medical Microbiology", year = "2005", volume = "54", number = "2", pages = "143-147", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1099/jmm.0.45799-0", url = "https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/jmm/10.1099/jmm.0.45799-0", publisher = "Microbiology Society", issn = "1473-5644", type = "Journal Article", abstract = " Clostridium difficile A+B+ and A−B+ strains isolated from stool samples of patients with C. difficile-associated diarrhoea (CDAD) were selected from the University Hospital Warsaw collection. The binary-toxin genes cdtA and cdtB were detected by PCR in five of the 41 A+B+ strains tested, but in none of the 17 A−B+ strains tested, giving 8.6 % prevalence (5/58) of binary-toxin-positive strains. All of the strains that were positive for binary-toxin genes were grouped into toxinotype IV, suggesting that in this institution toxinotype IV might dominate among the population of C. difficile with binary-toxin genes.", }