Porcine and Human Community Reservoirs of Enterococcus faecalis, Denmark
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Acknowledgments We thank L. Carbajo, J. Carpintero, E. Fernández, and L.M. Álvarez for their continuous encouragement; F. Lozano, N. Moya, A. Gutiérrez, J. Gimeno, A. Penedo, A. Menéndez, C. Martínez, and J.A. Anguiano for technical help; R. Daza and M.S. Jiménez for providing the human strains and related data; Nalin Rastogi for comparison of spoligotyping results with the SITVIT2 proprietary database; and M. Gilmour for careful revision of the manuscript.
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