- Abstract:
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The symptoms of Clostridium difficile infection are caused by toxins expressed from its 19 kb pathogenicity locus (PaLoc). Stable integration of the PaLoc is suggested by its single chromosomal location and the clade specificity of its different genetic variants. However, the PaLoc is variably present, even among closely related strains, and thus resembles a mobile genetic element. Our aim was to explain these apparently conflicting observations by reconstructing the evolutionary history of t...
Expand abstract - Publication status:
- Published
- Journal:
- Genome biology and evolution
- Volume:
- 6
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 36-52
- Publication date:
- 2014-01-05
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1759-6653
- ISSN:
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1759-6653
- URN:
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uuid:3ba99eae-2819-48b7-8979-59f5dfddb614
- Source identifiers:
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444162
- Local pid:
- pubs:444162
- Copyright date:
- 2014
Journal article
Evolutionary history of the Clostridium difficile pathogenicity locus.
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