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SUBMITTER: Kong LY
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6321846 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kong Ling Yuan LY Eyre David W DW Corbeil Jacques J Raymond Frederic F Walker A Sarah AS Wilcox Mark H MH Crook Derrick W DW Michaud Sophie S Toye Baldwin B Frost Eric E Dendukuri Nandini N Schiller Ian I Bourgault Anne-Marie AM Dascal Andrew A Oughton Matthew M Longtin Yves Y Poirier Louise L Brassard Paul P Turgeon Nathalie N Gilca Rodica R Loo Vivian G VG
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 20190101 2
<h4>Background</h4>Whole genome sequencing (WGS) studies can enhance our understanding of the role of patients with asymptomatic Clostridium difficile colonization in transmission.<h4>Methods</h4>Isolates obtained from patients with Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) and colonization identified in a study conducted during 2006-2007 at 6 Canadian hospitals underwent typing by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, multilocus sequence typing, and WGS. Isolates from incident CDI cases not in the init ...[more]