Determining Clostridium difficile intra-taxa diversity by mining multilocus sequence typing databases.

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Published in BMC Microbiol on March 14, 2017

Authors

Marina Muñoz1,2, Dora Inés Ríos-Chaparro1, Manuel Alfonso Patarroyo3,4, Juan David Ramírez5

Author Affiliations

1: Grupo de Investigaciones Microbiológicas-UR (GIMUR), Programa de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Matemáticas, Universidad del Rosario, Carrera 24 # 63C - 69, Bogotá, Colombia.
2: Posgrado Interfacultades Doctorado en Biotecnología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia.
3: Molecular Biology and Immunology Department, Fundación Instituto de Inmunología de Colombia (FIDIC), Bogotá, Colombia.
4: School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia.
5: Grupo de Investigaciones Microbiológicas-UR (GIMUR), Programa de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Matemáticas, Universidad del Rosario, Carrera 24 # 63C - 69, Bogotá, Colombia. juand.ramirez@urosario.edu.co.

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