Discrimination within phenotypically closely related definitive types of Salmonella enterica serovar typhimurium by the multiple amplification of phage locus typing technique.

Abstract excerpt

Multilocus sequence typing (MLST) is a relatively new high-resolution typing system employed for epidemiological studies of bacteria, including Salmonella. Discrimination based on MLST of housekeeping genes may be problematical, due to the high identity of gene sequences of closely related Salmonella species. The presence of genomic sequences derived from stable temperate phages in Salmonella offers an...

Topics

• Bacterial Proteins
• Bacterial Typing Techniques
• Bacteriophage Typing
• Base Sequence
• Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field
• Humans
• Phenotype
• Polymerase Chain Reaction
• Prophages
• Salmonella Infections