Determining Clostridium difficile intra-taxa diversity by mining multilocus sequence typing databases

Background: Multilocus sequence typing (MLST) is a highly discriminatory typing strategy; it is reproducible and scalable. There is a MLST scheme for Clostridium difficile (CD), a gram positive bacillus causing different pathologies of the gastrointestinal tract. This work was aimed at describing th...

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Autores Principales: Muñoz, Marina, Rios-Chaparro, Dora-Ines, Patarroyo, Manuel A., Ramírez, Juan David
Formato: Artículo (Article)
Lenguaje:Inglés (English)
Publicado: 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/21538
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12866-017-0969-7