International Clostridium difficile animal strain collection and large diversity of animal associated strains

BMC Microbiology

Table 2 Comparison of C. difficile PCR ribotypes detected in six animal species in different geographical regions

		This study	Netherlands	Germany	Switzerland	Australia	North America
Pigs	Number of ribotypes (reference)	16	3 [10], 1 [7]	20 [15]		1 [18]	7 [21]
Pigs	Most prevalent ribotypes	078, 150, 014/020, 045, 002, 081	078	078, 126, 002/2, 126, 413, 049, 598		237	078
Cattle	Number of ribotypes (reference)	20	2 [10]	17 [22]	5 [23]	21 [24]	7 [25] 3 [26]
Cattle	Most prevalent ribotypes	078, 014/020, 033, 002, 012, 126	012	033, 078, 045, 126	033, 003, 066, 070, 137	127, 033, 126, 056, 087	078, 017, 027, 014, 033
Cats and dogs	Number of ribotypes (reference)	9	9 [10]	5 [27]
Cats and dogs	Most prevalent ribotypes	014/020, 010, 001	010, 014, 039, 012	010, 014/020, 039, 045
Goats and sheep	Number of ribotypes (reference)	3			2 [23]	7 [28]
Goats and sheep	Most prevalent ribotypes	010, 014/020, 045			001, 066	101, 137

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