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Utility of a microsatellite assay for identifying clonally related outbreak isolates of Aspergillus fumigatus.
Journal of microbiological methods - 1 Jun 2008
Balajee S Arunmozhi, de Valk Hanneke A, Lasker Brent A, Meis Jacques F G M, Klaassen Corné H W
Abstract excerpt
A microsatellite assay based on short tandem repeats (STRAf) has been recently described as a discriminatory, high throughput assay for fingerprinting Aspergillus fumigatus isolates. However, the STRAf assay has not been tested for its utility in outbreak settings where it is critical to distinguish clonal clusters from genetically unrelated genotypes. In the present study, employing a panel of epidemiologically...
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