Sequence Similarity of Clostridium difficile Strains by Analysis of Conserved Genes and Genome Content Is Reflected by Their Ribotype Affiliation

• Hedwig Kurka,

  Affiliation Technische Universität München, Department of Microbiology, Freising, Germany

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• Armin Ehrenreich,

  Affiliation Technische Universität München, Department of Microbiology, Freising, Germany

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• Wolfgang Ludwig,

  Affiliation Technische Universität München, Department of Microbiology, Freising, Germany

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• Marc Monot,

  Affiliation Laboratoire Pathogenèse des Bacteries Anaerobies, Institute Pasteur, Paris, France

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• Maja Rupnik,

  Affiliation Institute of Public Health Maribor and University of Maribor, Faculty of Medicine and Centre of excellence Cipkebip, Ljubljana, Slovenia

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• Frederic Barbut,

  Affiliation National Reference Laboratory for Clostridium difficile, Faculté de Médecine Pierre et Marie Curie and Hôpital Saint-Antoine, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France

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• Alexander Indra,

  Affiliation Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, AGES – Austrian Agency for Health & Food Safety, Vienna, Austria

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• Bruno Dupuy,

  Affiliation Laboratoire Pathogenèse des Bacteries Anaerobies, Institute Pasteur, Paris, France

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• Wolfgang Liebl

  * E-mail: wliebl@wzw.tum.de

  Affiliation Technische Universität München, Department of Microbiology, Freising, Germany

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