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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Main Authors: Mostafa Y. Abdel-Glil, Prasad Thomas, Jörg Linde, Keith A. Jolley, Dag Harmsen, Lothar H. Wieler, Heinrich Neubauer, Christian Seyboldt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2021-10-01
Series:Microbiology Spectrum
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Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/Spectrum.00533-21