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Species status of Neisseria gonorrhoeae: evolutionary and epidemiological inferences from multilocus sequence typing.
BMC biology - 7 Sept 2007
Bennett Julia S, Jolley Keith A, Sparling P Frederick, Saunders Nigel J, Hart C Anthony, Feavers Ian M, Maiden Martin C J
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BACKGROUND: Various typing methods have been developed for Neisseria gonorrhoeae, but none provide the combination of discrimination, reproducibility, portability, and genetic inference that allows the analysis of all aspects of the epidemiology of this pathogen from a single data set. Multilocus sequence typing (MLST) has been used successfully to characterize the related organisms Neisseria meningitidis and...
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