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Genetic relatedness, Virulence factors and Antimicrobial Resistance of C. difficile strains from hospitalized patients in a multicentric study in Brazil
29 Jan 2020
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BACKGROUND: Clostridium (Clostridioides) difficile infection (CDI) is recognized worldwide as a public health concern, related mainly with hypervirulent strains. In Brazil there are few studies about molecular epidemiology of C. difficile, for this reason, we aimed to characterize C. difficile isolates from a large cohort study of three different Brazilian states to identify virulence and resistance genes,...
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