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Molecular diversity of live-attenuated prototypic vaccine strains and clinical isolates of Staphylococcus aureus.
FEMS microbiology letters - 7 Aug 2001
Buzzola F R, Quelle L S, Steele-Moore L, Berg D, Denamiel G, Gentilini E, Sordelli D O
Abstract excerpt
Bovine mastitis Staphylococcus aureus isolates and prototypic live-attenuated vaccine strains were analyzed by SmaI pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) typing and automated ribotyping. The discriminatory index of these methods was 0.91 and 0.69, respectively. SmaI PFGE typing assigned all laboratory strains into cluster Q, which shared 49% similarity with clusters A and B, and 35% similarity with cluster C....
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