Campylobacter jejuni multilocus sequence types in humans, northwest England, 2003-2004.
From: Emerging Infectious Diseases
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Date: 10/1/2006
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Author: Birtles, Andrew; Bolton, Eric; Fox, Andrew; Gee, Steven; Matthews, Margaret; Painter, Michael; Regan, Martyn; Sopwith, Will; Syed, Qutub
Detailed understanding of the epidemiology of Campylobacter is increasingly facilitated through use of universal and reproducible techniques for accurate strain differentiation and subtyping. Multilocus sequence typing (MLST) enables discriminatory subtyping and grouping of isolate types into genetically related clonal complexes; it also has the advantage of ease of application and repeatability. Recent studies suggest that a measure of host association may be distinguishable with ...
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