Clostridium difficile ribotype 017 – characterization, evolution and epidemiology of the dominant strain in Asia

Clostridium difficile ribotype (RT) 017 is an important toxigenic C. difficile RT which, due to a deletion in the repetitive region of the tcdA gene, only produces functional toxin B. Strains belonging to this RT were initially dismissed as nonpathogenic and circulated largely undetected for almost...

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Autores principales: Imwattana, Korakrit, Knight, Daniel R., Kullin, Brian, Collins, Deirdre A., Putsathit, Papanin, Kiratisin, Pattarachai, Riley, Thomas V.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Taylor & Francis 2019
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Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6542179/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31138041
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/22221751.2019.1621670

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6542179/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31138041
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/22221751.2019.1621670

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