Evaluation and selection of tandem repeat loci for Streptococcus pneumoniae MLVA strain typing.

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BACKGROUND: Precise identification of bacterial pathogens at the strain level is essential for epidemiological purposes. In Streptococcus pneumoniae, the existence of 90 different serotypes makes the typing particularly difficult and requires the use of highly informative tools. Available methods are relatively expensive and cannot be used for large-scale or routine typing of any new isolate. We explore here the...

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