COMPARISON OF WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCE-BASED METHODS AND PCR RIBOTYPING FOR SUBTYPING OF Clostridioides difficile
Clostridioides difficile is the most common cause of antibiotic-associated gastrointestinal infections. Capillary-electrophoresis (CE)-PCR ribotyping is currently the gold standard for C. difficile typing but lacks discriminatory power to study transmission and outbreaks in detail. New …