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James Heng Chiak Sim1, Victoria Anikst1, Akshar Lohith2
1Department of Pathology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
|April 17, 2015
Abstract:
Successful sequencing of the Clostridium difficile genome requires high-quality genomic DNA (gDNA) as the starting material. gDNA extraction using conventional methods is laborious. We describe here an optimized method for the simple extraction of C. difficile gDNA using the QIAamp DNA minikit, which yielded high-quality sequence reads on the Illumina MiSeq platform.

