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Antimicrobial susceptibility and molecular subtyping of 55 Turkish Bacillus anthracis strains using 25-loci multiple-locus VNTR analysis.
Comparative immunology, microbiology and infectious diseases - 1 Jul 2012
Ortatatli Mesut, Karagoz Alper, Percin Duygu, Kenar Levent, Kilic Selcuk, Durmaz Rıza
Abstract excerpt
Anthrax, which is caused by the bacterium Bacillus anthracis, is one of the oldest documented infectious diseases in both livestock and humans. The differentiation of B. anthracis strains is difficult because of their highly homogeneous genomes. We used multiple-locus variable-number tandem repeat analysis (MLVA) with 25 markers to genotype 55 B. anthracis isolates from 16 distinct regions of Turkey. The...
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