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The multilocus sequence typing network: mlst.net.
Nucleic acids research - 1 Jul 2005
Aanensen David M, Spratt Brian G
Abstract excerpt
The unambiguous characterization of strains of a pathogen is crucial for addressing questions relating to its epidemiology, population and evolutionary biology. Multilocus sequence typing (MLST), which defines strains from the sequences at seven house-keeping loci, has become the method of choice for molecular typing of many bacterial and fungal pathogens (and non-pathogens), and MLST schemes and strain databases...
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