Prevalence of binary toxin positive Clostridium difficile in diarrhoeal humans in the absence of epidemic ribotype 027

• Alan M. McGovern,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Biomedical Science, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

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• Grace O. Androga,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations School of Biomedical Science, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia, Department of Microbiology, PathWest Laboratory Medicine, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

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• Daniel R. Knight,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Biomedical Science, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

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• Mark W. Watson,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Institute for Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

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• Briony Elliott,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Medical and Health Sciences, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

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• Niki F. Foster,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, PathWest Laboratory Medicine, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

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• Barbara J. Chang,

  Roles Supervision

  Affiliation School of Biomedical Science, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

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• Thomas V. Riley

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: thomas.riley@uwa.edu.au

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, PathWest Laboratory Medicine, Perth, Western Australia, Australia, School of Medical and Health Sciences, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia, School of Veterinary and Life Sciences, Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1351-3740

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