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INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION
Volume 49, Issue -, Pages 1-11Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2016.12.018
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Clostridium difficile; Phylogeny; Evolution; Nosocomial infections; Pathogenesis
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Over the recent decades, Clostridiumdifficile infection (CDI) has emerged as a global public health threat. Despite growing attention, C. difficile remains a poorly understood pathogen, however, the exquisite sensitivity offered by next generation sequencing (NGS) technology has enabled analysis of the genome of C. difficile, giving us access to massive genomic data on factors such as virulence, evolution, and genetic relatednesswithin C. difficile groups. NGS has also demonstrated excellence in investigations of outbreaks and disease transmission, in both small and large-scale applications. This review summarizes themolecular epidemiology, evolution, and phylogeny of C. difficile, one of the most important pathogens worldwide in the current antibiotic resistance era. (C) 2016 Elsevier B. V. All rights reserved.
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