An Update on Clostridium difficile Toxinotyping.

ABSTRACT: Toxinotyping is a PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP)-based method for differentiation of Clostridium difficile strains according to the changes in the pathogenicity locus (PaLoc), a region coding for toxins A and B. Toxinotypes are a heterogenous group of strains that are important in the development of molecular diagnostic tests and vaccines and are a good basis for C. difficile phylogenetic studies. Here we describe an overview of the 34 currently known toxinotypes (I to XXXIV) and some changes in nomenclature.

SUBMITTER: Rupnik M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4702747 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature