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High-resolution typing of Leptospira interrogans strains by multispacer sequence typing.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Feb 2014
Zilber Anne-Laure, Picardeau Mathieu, Ayral Florence, Artois Marc, Demont Pierre, Kodjo Angeli, Djelouadji Zoheira
Abstract excerpt
Leptospirosis is a worldwide zoonosis which is responsible for the typical form of Weil's disease. The epidemiological surveillance of the Leptospira species agent is important for host prevalence control. Although the genotyping methods have progressed, the identification of some serovars remains ambiguous. We investigated the multispacer sequence typing (MST) method for genotyping strains belonging to the...
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