Article
Multiple-Locus Variable Number Tandem Repeat Analysis of Klebsiella pneumoniae: Comparison with Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis.
Microbial drug resistance (Larchmont, N.Y.) - 1 Jul 2017
Derakhshan Safoura, Najar-Peerayeh Shahin, Bakhshi Bita
Abstract excerpt
AIM: To assess whether multiple-locus variable-number tandem repeat analysis (MLVA) could replace pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) for genotyping of Klebsiella pneumoniae, this study was conducted to compare the typeability, discriminatory power, and concordance of these methods. MATERIALS...
Topics
- Alleles
- Bacterial Typing Techniques
- DNA, Bacterial
- Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field
- Genetic Loci
- Genotype
- Hospitals
- Humans
- Iran
- Klebsiella Infections
- Klebsiella pneumoniae
- Minisatellite Repeats
- Multigene Family
- Multilocus Sequence Typing
- Phylogeny