TY - JOUR AU - Ramírez-Vargas, Gabriel AU - Rodríguez, César T1 - Putative Conjugative Plasmids with tcdB and cdtAB Genes in Clostridioides difficile T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2020 VL - 26 IS - 9 SP - 2287 SN - 1080-6059 AB - The major toxins of Clostridioides difficile (TcdA, TcdB, CDT) are chromosomally encoded in nearly all known strains. Following up on previous findings, we identified 5 examples of a family of putative conjugative plasmids with tcdB and cdtAB in clinical C. difficile isolates from multilocus sequence typing clades C-I, 2, and 4. KW - bacteria KW - C. difficile KW - CDT KW - Clostridioides KW - cytotoxins KW - lateral gene transfer KW - mobile genetic elements KW - plasmids KW - tcdB KW - virulence factors KW - Clostridioides difficile DO - 10.3201/eid2609.191447 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/9/19-1447_article ER - End of Reference