| Literature DB >> 25263534 |
Rodrigo Otávio Silveira Silva1, Lara Ribeiro de Almeida2, Carlos Augusto Oliveira Junior2, Danielle Ferreira de Magalhães Soares2, Pedro Lúcio Lithg Pereira2, Maja Rupnik3, Francisco Carlos Faria Lobato4.
Abstract
The objective of this study was to isolate and characterize Clostridium difficile strains in stool samples from a wild urban mammal, a South American coati (Nasua nasua) in Brazil. Forty-six free-living N. nasua were trapped, and stool samples were collected. C. difficile was isolated from three (6.5%) sampled animals, two strains were toxigenic (A+B+CDT-, PCR ribotype 014/020 and 106) and one was non toxigenic (A-B-CDT-, PCR ribotype 053). The present work confirms that ring-tailed coati (N. nasua) could harbor C. difficile strains, including those PCR ribotypes commonly reported in C. difficile infection in humans.Entities:
Keywords: Carnivora; Procyonidae; Urban mammals; Zoonotic
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Year: 2014 PMID： 25263534 DOI： 10.1016/j.anaerobe.2014.09.012
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Anaerobe ISSN： 1075-9964 Impact factor: 3.331