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Multilocus sequence typing of Streptococcus pyogenes and the relationships between emm type and clone.
Infection and immunity - 1 Apr 2001
Enright M C, Spratt B G, Kalia A, Cross J H, Bessen D E
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Multilocus sequence typing (MLST) is a tool that can be used to study the molecular epidemiology and population genetic structure of microorganisms. A MLST scheme was developed for Streptococcus pyogenes and the nucleotide sequences of internal fragments of seven selected housekeeping loci were obtained for 212 isolates. A total of 100 unique combinations of housekeeping alleles (allelic profiles) were...
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