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The Mosaic Nature of Intergenic 16S-23S rRNA Spacer Regions Suggests rRNA Operon Copy Number Variation in Clostridium difficile Strains

Clostridium difficile is a major spore-forming environmental pathogen that causes serious health problems in patients undergoing antibiotic therapy. Consequently, reliable and sensitive methods for typing individual strains are required for epidemiological and environmental studies. Ribotyping is ge...

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Main Authors: Sadeghifard, Nourkhoda, Gürtler, Volker, Beer, Michael, Seviour, Robert J.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2006
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1636144/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16980415
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1128/AEM.01179-06
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