Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Elio Schaechter, Michael Schmidt and Michele Swanson.
Vincent, Elio, Michael, and Michele discuss the curious outer membrane vesicles of Neisseria meningitides, and sources of Clostridium difficile infection revealed by genome sequencing.
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I wonder about the criteria that were used in the C. difficile sequencing paper to distinguish different strains. I seem to remember reading that there can be as much variation in the
16S rRNA sequences within a species as there is between those of related species.
--bks
Posted by: bks | October 18, 2013 at 07:10 PM