• A MLST Clade 2 Clostridium difficile strain with a variant TcdB induces severe inflammatory and oxidative response associated with mucosal disruption 

      Leite Costa, Cecília; López Ureña, Diana; de Oliveira Assis, Thiago; Ribeiro, Ronaldo de Albuquerque; Silveira Silva, Rodrigo Otavio; Rupnik, Maja; Wilcox, Mark H.; Fiorini de Carvalho, Alex; Oliveira do Carmo, Anderson; Abalen Martins Dias, Adriana; Barreto Mano de Carvalho, Cibele; Chaves Olarte, Esteban; Rodríguez Sánchez, César; Quesada Gómez, Carlos; de Castro Brito, Gerly Anne (2016-08)
      The epidemiology of Clostridium difficile infections is highly dynamic as new strains continue to emerge worldwide. Here we present a detailed analysis of a new C. difficile strain (ICC-45) recovered from a cancer patient ...
    • Emergence of an Outbreak-Associated Clostridium difficile Variant with Increased Virulence 

      Quesada Gómez, Carlos; López Ureña, Diana; Chaves Olarte, Esteban; Acuña Amador, Luis Alberto; Villalobos Zúñiga, Manuel Antonio; Du, Tim; Freire, Rosemayre; Guzmán Verri, Caterina; Gamboa Coronado, María del Mar; Lawley, Trevor D.; Moreno Robles, Edgardo; Mulvey, Michael R.; de Castro Brito, Gerly Anne; Rodríguez Cavallini, Evelyn; Rodríguez Sánchez, César (2015-04)
      The prevalence of Clostridium difficile infections has increased due to the emergence of epidemic variants from diverse genetic lineages. Here we describe the emergence of a novel variant during an outbreak in a Costa Rican ...
    • Molecular epidemiology of Clostridium difficile infection in a Brazilian cancer hospital 

      Leite Costa, Cecília; Barreto Mano de Carvalho, Cibele; Holanda González, Rafael; Cavalcante Gifoni, Markus Andret; Ribeiro, Ronaldo de Albuquerque; Quesada Gómez, Carlos; de Castro Brito, Gerly Anne (2017)
      Clostridium difficile is a Gram-positive spore forming anaerobic bacterium and the main cause of healthcare-associated diarrhea. This study aimed to perform the phenotypic characterization and molecular typing of Clostridium ...