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Genomic diversity within the Enterobacter cloacae complex.
PloS one - 21 Aug 2008
Paauw Armand, Caspers Martien P M, Schuren Frank H J, Leverstein-van Hall Maurine A, Delétoile Alexis, Montijn Roy C, Verhoef Jan, Fluit Ad C
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BACKGROUND: Isolates of the Enterobacter cloacae complex have been increasingly isolated as nosocomial pathogens, but phenotypic identification of the E. cloacae complex is unreliable and irreproducible. Identification of species based on currently available genotyping tools is already superior to phenotypic identification, but the taxonomy of isolates belonging to this complex is cumbersome....
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