The text discusses a nosocomial bacterial pathogen responsible for antibiotic-associated diarrhea, highlighting the role of exotoxins and methods for genetic typing such as MLST and whole genome sequencing (WGS).
A study analyzed 699 genome sequences of distinct strains to establish a core gene set and develop a core genome multilocus sequence typing (cgMLST) scheme for phylogenetic analysis.
The findings categorized the bacterial isolates into five clades and successfully tracked an outbreak, suggesting a valuable surveillance system for this pathogen in China.