Genomic relatedness of Clostridium difficile strains from different toxinotypes and serogroups

Anaerobe

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 261-267

  Wozniak, Gordana ^a   Trontelj, Peter ^a   Rupnik, Maja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Clostridium difficile; Molecular typing; Toxinotypes

Indexed keywords

CLOSTRIDIUM TOXIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEROTYPE; TAXONOMY;

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE;

EID: 0033852005     PISSN: 10759964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anae.2000.0349     Document Type: Article

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