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A Severe Infection Caused by a White Colony-Producing Strain of Clostridioides difficile RTC41/ST588

  • Se Yoon Park (Department of Internal Medicine, Hanyang University Seoul Hospital, Hanyang University College of Medicine) ;
  • Heejung Kim (Department of Laboratory Medicine, Research Institute of Bacterial Resistance, Yonsei University College of Medicine) ;
  • Yangsoon Lee (Department of Laboratory Medicine, Hanyang University College of Medicine)
  • Received : 2023.12.06
  • Accepted : 2024.02.12
  • Published : 2024.07.01
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This work was supported by a National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korean government (MSIT) (2022R1F1A1063113).

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