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Development of an allele-specific PCR for Escherichia coli B2 sub-typing, a rapid and easy to perform substitute of multilocus sequence typing.
Journal of microbiological methods - 1 Jun 2014
Clermont Olivier, Christenson Julia K, Daubié Anne-Sophie, Gordon David M, Denamur Erick
Abstract excerpt
We developed and validated an allele-specific PCR method for detecting the nine main Escherichia coli phylogroup B2 lineages involved in extra-intestinal infections, which could be used as a substitute for multilocus sequence typing in studies for which the greater resolution at the sequence type level is not needed.
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