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Multilocus sequence typing scheme for Enterococcus faecium.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Jun 2002
Homan Wieger L, Tribe David, Poznanski Simone, Li Mei, Hogg Geoff, Spalburg Emile, Van Embden Jan D A, Willems Rob J L
Abstract excerpt
A multilocus sequence typing (MLST) scheme has been developed for Enterococcus faecium. Internal fragments from seven housekeeping genes of 123 epidemiologically unlinked isolates from humans and livestock and 16 human-derived isolates from several outbreaks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and The Netherlands were analyzed. A total of 62 sequence types were detected in vancomycin-sensitive E....
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