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. 2019 Feb 11;14(2):e0207138. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0207138

Fig 4. Distance between CD isolates and identifying patient clusters with identical CD isolates.

Fig 4

MMLVA identified 5 unique patient clusters that consisted of a total of 15 individuals with highly related CD isolates. The largest clusters involved 4 patients (MS196, MS472, MS024 and MS351) with the hyper-toxin producing ribotype-027. Some clusters were epidemiologically linked in hospital at this visit (ribotype-027 group; MS196, MS472, MS024 and MS351) while other clusters had no hospital or community links in the last 90 days (ribotype-449 group; MS207, MS067 and MS363) determined using time and place analysis.