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Mother-to-child transmission of and multiple-strain colonization by Bacteroides fragilis in a cohort of mothers and their children.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Dec 2011
Bjerke G A, Wilson R, Storrø O, Øyen T, Johnsen R, Rudi K
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Bacteroides fragilis represents an early infant colonizer with important host interactions. Our knowledge about the diversity, transmission, and persistence of this bacterium, however, is limited. Here, we addressed these questions using a combination of multilocus sequence typing (MLST) and variable-number tandem repeat (VNTR) sequence analyses. We used both culture-dependent and -independent typing. We...
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