Paige McGraw , Su-Chen Lim , Deirdre A. Collins , Thomas V. Riley
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Public park soils in Perth, Western Australia were investigated for Clostridioides difficile. C. difficile was found at a high prevalence of 73 %. Over 19 % of the C. difficile isolates were toxigenic, including clinically relevant C. difficile ribotypes 014/020 and 106. Additionally, an esculin-hydrolysis negative, A+B−CDT- isolate was recovered.
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Anaerobe is essential reading for those who wish to remain at the forefront of discoveries relating to life processes of strictly anaerobes. The journal is multi-disciplinary, and provides a unique forum for those investigating anaerobic organisms that cause infections in humans and animals, as well as anaerobes that play roles in microbiomes or environmental processes.
Anaerobe publishes reviews, mini reviews, original research articles, notes and case reports. Relevant topics fall into the broad categories of anaerobes in human and animal diseases, anaerobes in the microbiome, anaerobes in the environment, diagnosis of anaerobes in clinical microbiology laboratories, molecular biology, genetics, pathogenesis, toxins and antibiotic susceptibility of anaerobic bacteria.