Hypervirulent Clostridium difficile ribotypes are CpG depleted

Virulence. 2018;9(1):1422-1425. doi: 10.1080/21505594.2018.1509669.

Authors

Vinay Kamuju¹, Santosh Kumar¹, Wajihul Hasan Khan², Perumal Vivekanandan²

Affiliations

¹ a Department of Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology , Indian Institute of Technology Delhi , New Delhi , India.
² b Kusuma School of Biological Sciences , Indian Institute of Technology Delhi , New Delhi , India.

No abstract available

Keywords: Clostridium difficile; CpG depletion; dinucleotides; hypervirulence; translational selection.

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Clostridioides difficile / classification*
Clostridioides difficile / pathogenicity*
Clostridium Infections / microbiology
CpG Islands*
Genome, Bacterial
Humans
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Ribotyping*
Virulence