Multilocus sequence typing of Clostridium difficile

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 770-778

  Griffiths, David ^a,e   Fawley, Warren ^c   Kachrimanidou, Melina ^a,e   Bowden, Rory ^f   Crook, Derrick W ^a,e   Fung, Rowena ^a,e   Golubchik, Tanya ^f   Harding, Rosalind M ^f   Jeffery, Katie J M ^g   Jolley, Keith A ^f   Kirton, Richard ^g   Peto, Tim E ^a,e   Rees, Gareth ^g   Stoesser, Nicole ^a,e   Vaughan, Alison ^a,e   Walker, A Sarah ^a,e   Young, Bernadette C ^g   Wilcox, Mark ^b,c   Dingle, Kate E ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c LEEDS GENERAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e NIHR OXFORD BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^g JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLADISTICS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; FECES ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOTYPING;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INFANT; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RIBOTYPING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE;

EID: 77749255991     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01796-09     Document Type: Article

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