Recurrent infection with epidemic Clostridium difficile in a peripartum woman whose infant was asymptomatically colonized with the same strain.
Hecker
Michelle T
MT
Riggs
Michelle M
MM
Hoyen
Claudia K
CK
Lancioni
Christina
C
Donskey
Curtis J
CJ
D000328:Adult; D016360:Clostridioides difficile / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D004197:Disease Reservoirs; D004761:Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000635:transmission; D005243:Feces / Q000382:microbiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D012008:Recurrence; D021521:Ribotyping