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Molecular epidemiology of Clostridioides (previously Clostridium) difficile isolates from a university hospital in Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Anaerobe - 1 Apr 2019
Diniz Amanda Nádia, de Oliveira Júnior Carlos Augusto, Vilela Eduardo Garcia, Figueiredo Henrique Cesar Pereira, Rupnik Maja, Wilcox Mark H, Fawley Warren N, Blanc Dominique S, Faria Lobato Francisco Carlos, Silva Rodrigo Otávio Silveira
Abstract excerpt
The molecular epidemiology of 38 non-duplicate toxigenic Clostridioides (previously Clostridium) difficile isolates from inpatients from a hospital in Brazil during a 6-year period (2012-2017) were investigated by multilocus sequence typing (MLST) and ribotyping. These isolates were classified into 20 sequence types (ST), six (30%) of which were novel, revealing a high diversity in a single hospital. Classic...
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