Genomic diversity of Clostridium difficile strains

Research in Microbiology

Volumn 166, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 353-360

  Janezic, Sandra ^a   Rupnik, Maja ^a,b,c  

^a National Laboratory for Health Environment and Food   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

^c Centre of Excellence for Integrated Approaches in Chemistry and Biology of Proteins   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Clades; Clostridium difficile; Diversity; Toxinotyping; WGS

Indexed keywords

DNA 16S; DNA 23S; SPACER DNA; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CLADISTICS; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; EVOLUTIONARY RATE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR TYPING; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PEPTOCLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; PHYLOGENOMICS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RIBOTYPING; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; CLASSIFICATION; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DIARRHEA; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE;

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DIARRHEA; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; MOLECULAR TYPING; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84928584851     PISSN: 09232508     EISSN: 17697123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resmic.2015.02.002     Document Type: Article

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