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Genetic Organisation, Mobility and Predicted Functions of Genes on Integrated, Mobile Genetic Elements in Sequenced Strains of Clostridium difficile

BACKGROUND: Clostridium difficile is the leading cause of hospital-associated diarrhoea in the US and Europe. Recently the incidence of C. difficile-associated disease has risen dramatically and concomitantly with the emergence of ‘hypervirulent’ strains associated with more severe disease and incre...

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Autores principales: Brouwer, Michael S. M., Warburton, Philip J., Roberts, Adam P., Mullany, Peter, Allan, Elaine
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3158075/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21876735
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0023014