BMC Microbiology

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Typing Clostridium difficile strains based on tandem repeat sequences

N Henning Zaiß1, Maja Rupnik2,3, Ed J Kuijper4, Celine Harmanus4, Dolf Michielsen5, Koen Janssens5 and Ulrich Nübel1*

Author Affiliations

1 Robert Koch Institute, Wernigerode, Germany

2 University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia

3 Institute of Public Health Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia

4 Department of Medical Microbiology, Center of Infectious Diseases, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

5 Applied Maths NV, Sint-Martens-Latem, Belgium

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BMC Microbiology 2009, 9:6 doi:10.1186/1471-2180-9-6

Published: 8 January 2009

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Additional File 1:

Bacterial isolates. Table providing a list of bacterial isolates (isolate ID, source, geographic origin, PCR ribotype, TRST type, MLST type).

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TRST types and associated repeat profiles. Table providing TRST types and associated repeat profiles.

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Additional File 3:

Locus TR6, individual repeat sequences identified from 154 isolates. Table providing individual repeat sequences for locus TR6, identified from 154 isolates.

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Locus TR10, individual repeat sequences identified from 154 isolates. Table providing individual repeat sequences for locus TR10, identified from 154 isolates.

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