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Multispacer typing to study the genotypic distribution of Bartonella henselae populations.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Jul 2006
Li Wenjun, Chomel Bruno B, Maruyama Soichi, Guptil Lynn, Sander Anna, Raoult Didier, Fournier Pierre-Edouard
Abstract excerpt
Bartonella henselae, a worldwide fastidious bacterium, has a feline reservoir and is pathogenic for humans. However, the relationship between human and cat isolates of B. henselae, as well as its population dynamics and geographic heterogeneity, is not fully understood, in part because of the absence of appropriate typing methods. Multilocus sequence typing (MLST), the most discriminatory genotyping method for B....
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