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spa Typing and Multilocus Sequence Typing Show Comparable Performance in a Macroepidemiologic Study of Staphylococcus aureus in the United States.
Microbial drug resistance (Larchmont, N.Y.) - 1 Jan 2016
O'Hara F Patrick, Suaya Jose A, Ray G Thomas, Baxter Roger, Brown Megan L, Mera Robertino M, Close Nicole M, Thomas Elizabeth, Amrine-Madsen Heather
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A number of molecular typing methods have been developed for characterization of Staphylococcus aureus isolates. The utility of these systems depends on the nature of the investigation for which they are used. We compared two commonly used methods of molecular typing, multilocus sequence typing (MLST) (and its clustering algorithm, Based Upon Related Sequence Type [BURST]) with the staphylococcal protein A (spa)...
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