Table 2.

Isolation and toxin gene profile of Clostridium difficile from Japanese piglets.

Farm	Location of prefecture	Samples	No. of positive samples	No. of isolates	Toxin A+B+		Toxin A-B-CDT-
					CDT+	CDT-
A	Hokkaido	10	9	11	0	10	1
B	Hokkaido	10	7	8	0	8	0
C	Hokkaido	10	8	10	10	0	0
D	Hokkaido	10	7	13	0	0	13
E	Hokkaido	10	9	18	0	17	1
F	Miyagi	10	0	0	0	0	0
G	Miyagi	10	7	10	5	0	5
H	Yamagata	10	3	3	0	0	3
I	Fukushima	10	5	7	0	0	7
J	Tochigi	10	4	4	4	0	0
K	Chiba	10	7	9	6	0	3
L	Gifu	10	3	7	1	0	6
Sub Total					26	35
Total		120	69 (57.5%)	100	61 (61.0%)	39 (39.0%)