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HOOF prints: Brucella strain typing by PCR amplification of multilocus tandem-repeat polymorphisms.
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) - 1 Jan 2006
Bricker Betsy J, Ewalt Darla R
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A critical component of limiting bacterial disease outbreaks is the tracing of the infection to the index source, which can be facilitated by using a highly discriminating bacterial identification system that will reliably identify genetically related bacterial populations. For pathogenic bacteria with highly conserved genomes, such as the zoonotic pathogen Brucella, finding distinguishing markers or traits for...
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