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ArticleJournal of clinical microbiology2002

Determining the genetic structure of the natural population of Staphylococcus aureus: a comparison of multilocus sequence typing with pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, randomly amplified polymorphic DNA analysis, and phage typing.

Hajo Grundmann, Satoshi Hori, Mark C Enright, Carol Webster, Adriana Tami, Edward J Feil, Tyrone Pitt

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Article in Journal of clinical microbiology, 2002. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 42 papers.

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7 authors.

Hajo GrundmannDivision of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, University Hospital Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2UH, United Kingdom. Hajo.Grundmann@Nottingham.ac.uk
Satoshi Hori
Mark C Enright
Carol Webster
Adriana Tami
Edward J Feil
Tyrone Pitt

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We used a sample of Staphylococcus aureus strains that are carried by humans and that are representative of the natural population of S. aureus strains in order to assess the value of multilocus sequence typing (MLST), pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, randomly amplified polymorphic DNA analysis, and phage typing as epidemiological tools. Only MLST was able to define clonal complexes unambiguously. All DNA-based typing approaches achieved a high degree of agreement, implying phylogenetic concordance, but predicted epidemiological associations with variable accuracy.

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Bacterial Typing TechniquesBacteriophage TypingDNA, BacterialEcosystemElectrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-FieldHumansNoseRandom Amplified Polymorphic DNA TechniqueSequence Analysis, DNAStaphylococcus aureusStaphylococcus PhagesDNA, Bacterial

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PMID12454149
PMCPMC154601

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