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Development of a Multilocus Sequence Typing Scheme for Molecular Typing of Mycoplasma pneumoniae.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Oct 2015
Brown Rebecca J, Holden Matthew T G, Spiller O Brad, Chalker Victoria J
Abstract excerpt
Mycoplasma pneumoniae is a major human respiratory pathogen causing both upper and lower respiratory disease in humans of all ages, and it can also result in other serious extrapulmonary sequelae. A multilocus sequence typing (MLST) scheme for M. pneumoniae was developed based on the sequences of eight housekeeping genes (ppa, pgm, gyrB, gmk, glyA, atpA, arcC, and adk) and applied to 55 M. pneumoniae clinical...
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