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Clostridium innocuum is a significant vancomycin-resistant pathogen for extraintestinal clostridial infection.
Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases - 1 Aug 2017
Chia J-H, Feng Y, Su L-H, Wu T-L, Chen C-L, Liang Y-H, Chiu C-H
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OBJECTIVES: Extra-intestinal clostridial infection (EICI) is rare but can be fatal. Traditional phenotypic methods can only assign many of the Clostridium species to the genus level. METHODS: A total of 376 non-repetitive Clostridium isolates from sterile sites were collected and subjected to matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight (MALDI-TOF) Biotyper analysis and 16S rRNA sequencing....
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