Comment on

• A predominantly clonal multi-institutional outbreak of Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea with high morbidity and mortality.

  Loo VG, Poirier L, Miller MA, Oughton M, Libman MD, Michaud S, Bourgault AM, Nguyen T, Frenette C, Kelly M, Vibien A, Brassard P, Fenn S, Dewar K, Hudson TJ, Horn R, René P, Monczak Y, Dascal A. Loo VG, et al. N Engl J Med. 2005 Dec 8;353(23):2442-9. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa051639. Epub 2005 Dec 1. N Engl J Med. 2005. PMID: 16322602
• An epidemic, toxin gene-variant strain of Clostridium difficile.

  McDonald LC, Killgore GE, Thompson A, Owens RC Jr, Kazakova SV, Sambol SP, Johnson S, Gerding DN. McDonald LC, et al. N Engl J Med. 2005 Dec 8;353(23):2433-41. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa051590. Epub 2005 Dec 1. N Engl J Med. 2005. PMID: 16322603