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. 2010 Feb;48(2):669-70.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.02196-09. Epub 2009 Nov 25.

Emergence of Clostridium difficile NAP1 in Latin America

Carlos Quesada-Gómez, César Rodríguez, María del Mar Gamboa-Coronado, Evelyn Rodríguez-Cavallini, Tim Du, Michael R Mulvey, Manuel Villalobos-Zúñiga, Ricardo Boza-Cordero

Emergence of Clostridium difficile NAP1 in Latin America

Carlos Quesada-Gómez et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2010 Feb.
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Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis. SmaI dendrogram of 37 isolates of Clostridium difficile recovered from patients with antibiotic-associated diarrhea in a Costa Rican hospital.
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