Subtyping of Clostridium difficile PCR ribotypes 591, 106 and 002, the dominant strain types circulating in Medellin, Colombia

• Clara Lina Salazar,

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

  Affiliation Research Group in Anaerobic Bacteria (GIBA), School of Microbiology, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia

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• Catalina Reyes,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Basic and Applied Microbiology Research Group (MICROBA), School of Microbiology, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia

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• Astrid Vanessa Cienfuegos-Gallet,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Basic and Applied Microbiology Research Group (MICROBA), School of Microbiology, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia

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• Emma Best,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Departament of Microbiology, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, United Kingdom

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• Santiago Atehortua,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation San Vicente Fundación University Hospital, Medellín, Colombia

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• Patricia Sierra,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Clínica León XIII, IPS Universitaria, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia

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• Margarita M. Correa,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Molecular Microbiology Group, School of Microbiology, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia

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• Warren N. Fawley,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision

  Affiliation Departament of Microbiology, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, United Kingdom

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• Daniel Paredes-Sabja,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Microbiota-Host Interactions and Clostridia Research Group, Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, at Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago, Chile

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• Mark Wilcox,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision

  Affiliation Departament of Microbiology, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, United Kingdom

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• Angel Gonzalez

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: angel.gonzalez@udea.edu.co

  Affiliation Basic and Applied Microbiology Research Group (MICROBA), School of Microbiology, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7052-7938

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