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Improved multilocus sequence typing scheme for Staphylococcus epidermidis.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Feb 2007
Thomas Jonathan C, Vargas Miguel R, Miragaia Maria, Peacock Sharon J, Archer Gordon L, Enright Mark C
Abstract excerpt
We evaluated three multilocus sequence typing (MLST) schemes for Staphylococcus epidermidis and selected the seven most discriminatory loci for the formation of a new, more powerful MLST scheme. This improved scheme gave 31 sequence types (STs) and 5 clonal complexes (CCs), whereas the other schemes delineate 16 to 24 STs and 1 to 3 CCs.
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