Reclassification of Clostridium difficile as Clostridioides difficile (Hall and O'Toole 1935) Prévot 1938

Anaerobe

Volumn 40, Issue , 2016, Pages 95-99

  Lawson, Paul A ^a   Citron, Diane M ^b   Tyrrell, Kerin L ^b   Finegold, Sydney M ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b R M ALDEN RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

16S rRNA; Clostridioides; Clostridium difficile; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; SATURATED FATTY ACID; UNSATURATED FATTY ACID; BACTERIAL DNA; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CHEMOTAXONOMY; CLASSIFICATION; CLOSTRIDIACEAE; CLOSTRIDIOIDES DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIOIDES MANGENOTII; CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM BUTYRICUM; CLOSTRIDIUM MANGENOTII; EVOLUTION; FATTY ACID SYNTHESIS; NONHUMAN; PEPTOCLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA 16S GENE; RNA GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; FECES; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NOMENCLATURE; SEDIMENT;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; DNA, BACTERIAL; FECES; FOUNDER EFFECT; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 84976871517     PISSN: 10759964     EISSN: 10958274     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anaerobe.2016.06.008     Document Type: Article

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