The current MLVA typing scheme for Enterococcus faecium is less discriminatory than MLST and PFGE for epidemic-virulent, hospital-adapted clonal types

BACKGROUND: MLVA (multiple-locus variable-number tandem repeat analysis) is a reliable typing technique introduced recently to differentiate also isolates of Enterococcus faecium. We used the established VNTR (variable number of tandem repeats) scheme to test its suitability to differentiate 58 E. f...

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Autores principales: Werner, Guido, Klare, Ingo, Witte, Wolfgang
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1865547/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17425779
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2180-7-28

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1865547/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17425779
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2180-7-28

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