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ArticleGut pathogens2020

In vivo animal models confirm an increased virulence potential and pathogenicity of the NAP1/RT027/ST01 genotype within the

Josué Orozco-Aguilar, Alejandro Alfaro-Alarcón, Luis Acuña-Amador, Esteban Chaves-Olarte, César Rodríguez, Carlos Quesada-Gómez

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Article in Gut pathogens, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Josué Orozco-AguilarLaboratorio de Ensayos Biológicos (LEBi), Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica.
Alejandro Alfaro-AlarcónDepartamento de Patología, Escuela de Medicina Veterinaria, Universidad Nacional, Heredia, Costa Rica.
Luis Acuña-AmadorCentro de Investigación en Enfermedades Tropicales and Facultad de Microbiología, Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica.
Esteban Chaves-OlartePrograma de Posgrado en Microbiología, Parasitología, Química Clínica e Inmunología, Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica.
César RodríguezPrograma de Posgrado en Microbiología, Parasitología, Química Clínica e Inmunología, Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica.
Carlos Quesada-GómezLaboratorio de Ensayos Biológicos (LEBi), Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica.ORCID 0000-0002-2293-8257
Universidad de Costa Rica · CRUniversidad Nacional · CR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundBased on MLST analyses the global population of

methodsTo clarify whether this clinically relevant phenotype is a widespread feature of

resultsThe ST01 isolate tested ranked first in all assays, as it induced the highest overall levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines, MPO activity, epithelial damage, biochemical markers, and mortality measured in both animal models. Statistically indistinguishable or rather similar outputs were obtained for a ST67 isolate in tests such as tissue damage, neutrophils count, and lethal activity. The results recorded for the two ST41 isolates tested were of intermediate magnitude and the ST252 isolate displayed the lowest pathogenic potential in all animal experiments. This ordering matched the genomic distance of the ST01 isolate to the non-ST01 isolates.

conclusionsDespite their close phylogenic relatedness, our results demonstrate differences in pathogenicity and virulence levels in Clade 2

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Clostridium difficileMLST Clade 2NAP1/RT027/ST01PathogenicityVirulence

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PMID32983262
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