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Analysis of typing methods for epidemiological surveillance of both methicillin-resistant and methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus strains.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Jan 2008
Faria Nuno A, Carrico João A, Oliveira Duarte C, Ramirez Mário, de Lencastre Hermínia
Abstract excerpt
Sequence-based methods for typing Staphylococcus aureus, such as multilocus sequence typing (MLST) and spa typing, have increased interlaboratory reproducibility, portability, and speed in obtaining results, but pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE), remains the method of choice in many laboratories due to the extensive experience with this methodology and the large body of data accumulated using the technique....
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