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New Clostridium difficile serotypes in Poland

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Polish isolates of Clostridium difficile strains of different origin were studied. All strains were serotyped according to the Delmee scheme. Twenty-one strains remained untypeable. By typing them with antisera against 5 Polish strains we observed 5 new serotypes.

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  1. Department of Bacteriology and Immunology, Institute of Biostructure, Medical Academy, 5 Chalubiński str., 02-004, Warsaw, Poland

    F. Meisel-Mikolajczyk & B. Sokól

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Meisel-Mikolajczyk, F., Sokól, B. New Clostridium difficile serotypes in Poland. Eur J Epidemiol 7, 434–436 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00145011

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