Typing of Clostridium difficile isolates endemic in Japan by sequencing of slpA and its application to direct typing.

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A typing system for Clostridium difficile using sequencing of the surface-layer protein A encoding gene (slpA) was evaluated and used to analyse clinical isolates in Japan. A total of 160 stool specimens from symptomatic patients in Japan was examined and 87 C. difficile isolates were recovered. slpA sequence typing was found to have reliable typability and discriminatory power in comparison with PCR ribotyping,...

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