Comparative Genome Analysis and Global Phylogeny of the Toxin Variant Clostridium difficile PCR Ribotype 017 Reveals the Evolution of Two Independent Sublineages

Author(s):
Cairns, M.D.; Preston, M.D.; Hall, C.L.; Gerding, D.N.; Hawkey, P.M.; Kato, H.; Kim, H.; Kuijper, E.J.; Lawley, T.D.; Pituch, H.; Reid, S.; Kullin, B.; Riley, T.V.; Solomon, K.; Tsai, P.J.; Weese, J.S.; Stabler, R.A.; Wren, B.W.
Published
2017
Publication type
Article / Letter to editor
Clostridium difficilesequencingSNPsribotype 017evolutionphylogeneticsantibiotic resistancephylogeny
Date issued
2017-03-31
Language
English
Is part of
Journal of Clinical Microbiology (2017), Vol. 55, no. 3, p. 865-876
hdl
1887/114587
doi
10.1128/JCM.01296-16