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Uses of Staphylococcus aureus GeneChips in genotyping and genetic composition analysis.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Sept 2004
Dunman P M, Mounts W, McAleese F, Immermann F, Macapagal D, Marsilio E, McDougal L, Tenover F C, Bradford P A, Petersen P J, Projan S J, Murphy E
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Understanding the relatedness of strains within a bacterial species is essential for monitoring reservoirs of antimicrobial resistance and for epidemiological studies. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE), ribotyping, and multilocus sequence typing are commonly used for this purpose. However, these techniques are either nonquantitative or provide only a limited estimation of strain relatedness. Moreover, they...
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