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SUBMITTER: Munoz M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6683185 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Muñoz Marina M Restrepo-Montoya Daniel D Kumar Nitin N Iraola Gregorio G Camargo Milena M Díaz-Arévalo Diana D Roa-Molina Nelly S NS Tellez Mayra A MA Herrera Giovanny G Ríos-Chaparro Dora I DI Birchenall Claudia C Pinilla Darío D Pardo-Oviedo Juan M JM Rodríguez-Leguizamón Giovanni G Josa Diego F DF Lawley Trevor D TD Patarroyo Manuel A MA Ramírez Juan David JD
Scientific reports 20190805 1
Clostridium difficile, the causal agent of antibiotic-associated diarrhea, has a complex epidemiology poorly studied in Latin America. We performed a robust genomic and phenotypic profiling of 53 C. difficile clinical isolates established from diarrheal samples from either intrahospital (IH) or community (CO) populations in central Colombia. In vitro tests were conducted to evaluate the cytopathic effect, the minimum inhibitory concentration of ten antimicrobial agents, the sporulation efficienc ...[more]