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. 2016 Sep 16;82(19):5806–5814. doi: 10.1128/AEM.01540-16

TABLE 3.

Bacterial counts of Clostridium difficile in 55 C. difficile-positive infants by qPCR

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a

M, male; F, female.

b

N, natural delivery; C, cesarean section.

c

−, not detected.

d

Toxin types of C. difficile predominating in each specimen were identified on the basis of qPCR counts for the three genes according to the criteria described in Materials and Methods. On the basis of toxin type, each specimen is highlighted as follows: red, A+ B+ type; blue, A− B+ type; green, A− B− type.