As Clear as Mud? Determining the Diversity and Prevalence of Prophages in the Draft Genomes of Estuarine Isolates ofClostridium difficile

Mobile genetic elements in Clostridium difficile and their role in genome function

(2015) Peter Mullany et al.   RESEARCH IN MICROBIOLOGY

Characterization of Temperate Phages Infecting Clostridium difficile Isolates of Human and Animal Origins

(2014) Ognjen Sekulovic et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

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(2014) T. Seemann   BIOINFORMATICS

The LexA regulated genes of the Clostridium difficile

(2014) Beata M Walter et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

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(2014) Robert P. Fagan et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

What Does the Talking?: Quorum Sensing Signalling Genes Discovered in a Bacteriophage Genome

(2014) Katherine R. Hargreaves et al.   PLoS One

Sequence Similarity of Clostridium difficile Strains by Analysis of Conserved Genes and Genome Content Is Reflected by Their Ribotype Affiliation

(2014) Hedwig Kurka et al.   PLoS One

The Flagellin FliC of Clostridium difficile Is Responsible for Pleiotropic Gene Regulation during In Vivo Infection

(2014) Amira Barketi-Klai et al.   PLoS One

Abundant and Diverse Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeat Spacers in Clostridium difficile Strains and Prophages Target Multiple Phage Types within This Pathogen

(2014) K. R. Hargreaves et al.   mBio

Clostridium difficile phages: still difficult?

(2014) Katherine R. Hargreaves et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Genetically Diverse Clostridium difficile Strains Harboring Abundant Prophages in an Estuarine Environment

(2013) K. R. Hargreaves et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Evolutionary History of the Clostridium difficile Pathogenicity Locus

(2013) Kate E. Dingle et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

The agr Locus Regulates Virulence and Colonization Genes in Clostridium difficile 027

(2013) M. J. Martin et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Diversity of cwp loci in clinical isolates of Clostridium difficile

(2013) M. Biazzo et al.   JOURNAL OF MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY

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(2013) Koichiro Tamura et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The Role of Flagella in Clostridium difficile Pathogenesis: Comparison between a Non-Epidemic and an Epidemic Strain

(2013) Soza T. Baban et al.   PLoS One

Asymptomatic Clostridium difficile Colonisation and Onward Transmission

(2013) David W. Eyre et al.   PLoS One

Phage  C2 Mediates Transduction of Tn6215, Encoding Erythromycin Resistance, between Clostridium difficile Strains

(2013) S. Goh et al.   mBio

Horizontal gene transfer converts non-toxigenic Clostridium difficile strains into toxin producers

(2013) Michael S.M. Brouwer et al.   Nature Communications

Genome-Wide Identification of Regulatory RNAs in the Human Pathogen Clostridium difficile

(2013) Olga A. Soutourina et al.   PLoS Genetics

Evidence ofIn VivoProphage Induction during Clostridium difficile Infection

(2012) Mathieu Meessen-Pinard et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Prophage Carriage and Diversity within Clinically Relevant Strains of Clostridium difficile

(2012) Jinyu Shan et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Analysis of a Clostridium difficile PCR ribotype 078 100 kilobase island reveals the presence of a novel transposon, Tn6164

(2012) Jeroen Corver et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

Changing Epidemiology of Clostridium difficile Infection Following the Introduction of a National Ribotyping-Based Surveillance Scheme in England

(2012) M. H. Wilcox et al.   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

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(2012) Michelle D Cairns et al.   Future Microbiology

Modulation of Toxin Production by the Flagellar Regulon in Clostridium difficile

(2012) Annie Aubry et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

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(2012) Laura J. Deakin et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

Emergence and global spread of epidemic healthcare-associated Clostridium difficile

(2012) Miao He et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Macro and Micro Diversity of Clostridium difficile Isolates from Diverse Sources and Geographical Locations

(2012) Richard A. Stabler et al.   PLoS One

Diverse Temperate Bacteriophage Carriage in Clostridium difficile 027 Strains

(2012) Janet Y. Nale et al.   PLoS One

In vivo lysogenization of a Clostridium difficile bacteriophage ФCD119

(2011) Govind Revathi et al.   ANAEROBE

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(2011) M. J. Sullivan et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

BLAST Ring Image Generator (BRIG): simple prokaryote genome comparisons

(2011) Nabil-Fareed Alikhan et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Isolation and characterization of Clostridium difficile from shellfish and marine environments

(2011) Vincenzo Pasquale et al.   FOLIA MICROBIOLOGICA

Mutagenic Analysis of the Clostridium difficile Flagellar Proteins, FliC and FliD, and Their Contribution to Virulence in Hamsters

(2011) Tanis C. Dingle et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

Prophage-Stimulated Toxin Production in Clostridium difficile NAP1/027 Lysogens

(2011) O. Sekulovic et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

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(2011) David W. Eyre et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Emergence of new PCR ribotypes from the hypervirulent Clostridium difficile 027 lineage

(2011) E. Valiente et al.   JOURNAL OF MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Reannotation of the genome sequence of Clostridium difficile strain 630

(2011) M. Monot et al.   JOURNAL OF MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Fast, scalable generation of high-quality protein multiple sequence alignments using Clustal Omega

(2011) F. Sievers et al.   Molecular Systems Biology

PHAST: A Fast Phage Search Tool

(2011) Y. Zhou et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Genetic Organisation, Mobility and Predicted Functions of Genes on Integrated, Mobile Genetic Elements in Sequenced Strains of Clostridium difficile

(2011) Michael S. M. Brouwer et al.   PLoS One

The Clostridium difficile Cell Wall Protein CwpV is Antigenically Variable between Strains, but Exhibits Conserved Aggregation-Promoting Function

(2011) Catherine B. Reynolds et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Bacteriophage treatment significantly reduces viable Clostridium difficile and prevents toxin production in an in vitro model system

(2010) Emma Meader et al.   ANAEROBE

The occurrence and high diversity of Clostridium difficile genotypes in rivers

(2010) Valerija Zidaric et al.   ANAEROBE

Clostridium difficilein Food and Domestic Animals: A New Foodborne Pathogen?

(2010) L. Hannah Gould et al.   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Genome analysis of the Clostridium difficile phage ΦCD6356, a temperate phage of the Siphoviridae family

(2010) Marianne Horgan et al.   GENE

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(2010) Simon J. Labrie et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

progressiveMauve: Multiple Genome Alignment with Gene Gain, Loss and Rearrangement

(2010) Aaron E. Darling et al.   PLoS One

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(2009) Shivangi Agarwal et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Bacteriophage-Mediated Toxin Gene Regulation in Clostridium difficile

(2009) R. Govind et al.   JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY

Clostridium difficile infection: new developments in epidemiology and pathogenesis

(2009) Maja Rupnik et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Comparative genome and phenotypic analysis of Clostridium difficile 027 strains provides insight into the evolution of a hypervirulent bacterium

(2009) Richard A Stabler et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Velvet: Algorithms for de novo short read assembly using de Bruijn graphs

(2008) D. R. Zerbino et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Molecular Characterization of a Clostridium difficile Bacteriophage and Its Cloned Biologically Active Endolysin

(2008) M. J. Mayer et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

ARDB--Antibiotic Resistance Genes Database

(2008) B. Liu et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Revised nomenclature for transposable genetic elements

(2008) Adam P. Roberts et al.   PLASMID

HsdR Subunit of the Type I Restriction-Modification Enzyme EcoR124I: Biophysical Characterisation and Structural Modelling

(2007) Agnieszka Obarska-Kosinska et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY