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High Prevalence of Genetically Related Clostridium Difficile Strains at a Single Hemato-Oncology Ward Over 10 Years

Aims: Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) infection (CDI) is the main cause of healthcare-associated infectious diarrhea. We used whole-genome sequencing (WGS) to measure the prevalence and genetic variability of C. difficile at a single hemato-oncology ward over a 10 year period. Methods: Between...

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Autores principales: Waker, Edyta, Ambrozkiewicz, Filip, Kulecka, Maria, Paziewska, Agnieszka, Skubisz, Karolina, Cybula, Patrycja, Targoński, Łukasz, Mikula, Michał, Walewski, Jan, Ostrowski, Jerzy
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7384382/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32793147
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2020.01618