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SUBMITTER: Gawlik D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4526300 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
BMC microbiology 20150805
<h4>Background</h4>Clostridium difficile can cause antibiotic-associated diarrhea and a possibility of outbreaks in hospital settings warrants molecular typing. A microarray was designed that included toxin genes (tcdA/B, cdtA/B), genes related to antimicrobial resistance, the slpA gene and additional variable genes.<h4>Results</h4>DNA of six reference strains and 234 clinical isolates from South-Western and Eastern Germany was subjected to linear amplification and labeling with dUTP-linked biot ...[more]