Toxigenic Clostridium difficile PCR ribotypes from wastewater treatment plants 1 in Southern Switzerland
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Running title: Clostridium difficile from wastewater treatment plants 3 4 Vincenza Romano, Vincenzo Pasquale,* Karel Krovacek, Federica Mauri, Antonella Demarta, 5 and Stefano Dumontet 6 Department of Environmental Sciences, “Parthenope” University of Naples, Naples, Italy ; Department of 7 Biomedical Sciences and Veterinary Public Health, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, 8 Sweden; and Cantonal Institute of Microbiology, Bellinzona, Switzerland 9 10 [email protected] 11 [email protected] 12 [email protected] 13 [email protected] 14 [email protected] 15 [email protected] 16 17 *Corresponding author: Vincenzo Pasquale Department of Environmental Sciences, University of 18 Naples, Centro Direzionale, Isola C4, 80143 Naples, Italy 19 Phone: +390815475629. Fax: +39 081 5476515 E-mail: [email protected] 20 21
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