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Heuristic Mining of Hierarchical Genotypes and Accessory Genome Loci in Bacterial Populations
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Evidence to support the existence of subgroups within the UK epidemic Clostridium difficile strain (PCR ribotype 1)
W N Fawley1, J Freeman, M H Wilcox
1Department of Microbiology, The University of Leeds and Leeds General Infirmary, Old Medical School, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK.
The Journal of Hospital Infection
|May 28, 2003
Abstract:
We used three different DNA fingerprinting techniques and clindamycin susceptibility testing to confirm that Clostridium difficile PCR ribotype I isolates can be divided into two subclones. This observation may permit a better understanding of the epidemiology and pathogenicity of C. difficile infection.

