RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 Pituch, Hanna A1 Rupnik, Maja A1 Obuch-Woszczatyński, Piotr A1 Grubesic, Ana A1 Meisel-Mikołajczyk, Felicja A1 Łuczak, MirosławYR 2005 T1 Detection of binary-toxin genes (cdtA and cdtB) among Clostridium difficile strains isolated from patients with C. difficile-associated diarrhoea (CDAD) in Poland JF Journal of Medical Microbiology, VO 54 IS 2 SP 143 OP 147 DO https://doi.org/10.1099/jmm.0.45799-0 PB Microbiology Society, SN 1473-5644, AB 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., UL https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/jmm/10.1099/jmm.0.45799-0