Establishment of a Publicly Available Core Genome Multilocus Sequence Typing Scheme for Clostridium perfringens
ABSTRACT Clostridium perfringens is a spore-forming anaerobic pathogen responsible for a variety of histotoxic and intestinal infections in humans and animals. High-resolution genotyping aiming to identify bacteria at strain level has become increasingly important in modern microbiology to understan...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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American Society for Microbiology
2021-10-01
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Series: | Microbiology Spectrum |
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Online Access: | https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/Spectrum.00533-21 |