Table 1.

Multilocus sequence typing (MLST), ribotype, slpA, tcdC, and toxin genotypes of the 116 Clostridium difficile clinical isolates.

MLST clade	MLST ST	Ribotype	slpA genotype	tcdC genotype	Toxin gene	No. of isolates
Clade 1	ST2	14	hr-01	sc9	A+B+CDT-	2
				WT	A+B+CDT-	4
			pus1-01	WT	A+B+CDT-	1
		20	hr-01	sc9	A+B+CDT-	1
				WT	A+B+CDT-	1
		PUR02	hr-01	sc9	A+B+CDT-	1
		PUR03	cc12078-01	WT	A+B+CDT-	1
	ST3	1	gr-01	sc3	A+B+CDT-	17
	ST8	2	yok-01	WT	A+B+CDT-	3
		PUR04	yok-01	WT	A+B+CDT-	1
		PUR05	yok-01	WT	A+B+CDT-	4
	ST27	39	sh-01	WT	A+B+CDT-	1
	ST35	46	og39-01	WT	A+B+CDT-	8
	ST42	106	hr-02	WT	A+B+CDT-	5
	ST51	PUR07	yok-01	Ba	A+B+CDT-	1
	ST54	12	kr-03	sc9	A+B+CDT-	16
				WT	A+B+CDT-	3
	ST55	70	kr-04	sc9	A+B+CDT-	1
		PUR08	kr-03	sc9	A+B+CDT-	1
	ST91	PUR10	ar-01	WT	A+B+CDT-	1
	ST98	PUR11	pus1-01	WT	A+B+CDT-	1
	ST129	PUR13	xr-03	sc9	A+B+CDT-	1
				WT	A+B+CDT-	1
	ST233	PUR14	yok-01	sc9	A+B+CDT-	1
	ST278	PUR15	kr-03	WT	A+B+CDT-	1
	ST286	PUR16	pus2-01	WT	A+B+CDT-	1
	ST289	PUR17	hr-01	sc9	A+B+CDT-	1
	ST333	2	yok-01	WT	A+B+CDT-	1
	ST334	PUR12	gc11-01	WT	A+B+CDT-	1
Clade 2	ST1	27	gc8-03	sc1a	A+B+CDT+	2
		PUR01	gc8-03	WT	A+B+CDT+	1
Clade 3	ST5	23	kr-04	puc1a	A+B+CDT+	1
		63	j52-01	puc1a	A+B+CDT+	2
Clade 4	ST37	17	fr-01	sc7	A-B+CDT-	12
				sc9	A-B+CDT-	1
			fr-06	sc7	A-B+CDT-	3
	ST81	PUR09	fr-01	sc7	A-B+CDT-	11
	ST332	PUR06	hr-01	sc15	A+B+CDT-	1

^atcdC-sc1, tcdC-B, and tcdC-puc1 had 18-bp deletion at position 330–347; tcdC-sc1 had a single-nucleotide deletion at position 117.