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