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Comment
. 2002 Sep;40(9):3546-7; author reply 3547.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.40.9.3546-3547.2002.

Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis can yield DNA fingerprints of degradation-susceptible Clostridium difficile strains

Warren N Fawley, Mark H Wilcox
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Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis can yield DNA fingerprints of degradation-susceptible Clostridium difficile strains

Warren N Fawley et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2002 Sep.
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FIG. 1.
PFGE DNA fingerprints of 8 representative ribotype 1 C. difficile isolates (lanes 2 to 9) obtained by using an unmodified PFGE protocol (Fig. 1A) and 13 representative ribotype 1 isolates (lanes 2 to 14) obtained by using our modified PFGE protocol (Fig. 1B). The markers present in lanes 1 and 10 (Fig. 1A) and lanes 1 and 15 (Fig. 1B) are bacteriophage lambda concatemers. Gel images were generated by an ImageMaster VDS camera (Pharmacia) and were sized by using Adobe Photoshop software.
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