High sporulation and overexpression of virulence factors in biofilms and reduced susceptibility to vancomycin and linezolid in recurrent Clostridium [Clostridioides] difficile infection isolates

• Laura Tijerina-Rodríguez,

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

  Affiliation Departamento de Microbiología e Inmunología, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, San Nicolás de los Garza, Mexico

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• Licet Villarreal-Treviño,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Departamento de Microbiología e Inmunología, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, San Nicolás de los Garza, Mexico

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• Simon D. Baines,

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

  Affiliation Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, School of Life and Medical Sciences, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, United Kingdom

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• Rayo Morfín-Otero,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Instituto de Patología Infecciosa y Experimental, Centro Universitario de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad de Guadalajara, Hospital Civil de Guadalajara “Fray Antonio Alcalde”, Guadalajara, Mexico

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• Adrián Camacho-Ortíz,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Hospital Universitario “Dr. José Eleuterio González”, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Monterrey, Mexico

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• Samantha Flores-Treviño,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Hospital Universitario “Dr. José Eleuterio González”, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Monterrey, Mexico

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• Héctor Maldonado-Garza,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Hospital Universitario “Dr. José Eleuterio González”, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Monterrey, Mexico

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• Eduardo Rodríguez-Noriega,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Instituto de Patología Infecciosa y Experimental, Centro Universitario de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad de Guadalajara, Hospital Civil de Guadalajara “Fray Antonio Alcalde”, Guadalajara, Mexico

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• Elvira Garza-González

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

  * E-mail: elvira_garza_gzz@yahoo.com

  Affiliation Hospital Universitario “Dr. José Eleuterio González”, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Monterrey, Mexico

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5831-9661

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