Automated pneumococcal MLST using liquid-handling robotics and a capillary DNA sequencer.

What it found

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The trial behind it

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Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed, 38 citations in OpenAlex.

1. Molecular epidemiology of pneumococcal colonization in response to pneumococcal conjugate vaccination in children with recurrent acute otitis media.Journal of clinical microbiology · 2005
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2. An Excel Macro for Determining Allelic and Sequence Types of Bacterial Clones in Multilocus Sequence Typing.Annals of laboratory medicine · 2019
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3. Microbial sequence typing in the genomic era.Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases · 2018
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4. Modified MLVA for Genotyping Queensland Invasive Streptococcus pneumoniae.PloS one · 2015
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5. Death or survival from invasive pneumococcal disease in Scotland: associations with serogroups and multilocus sequence types.Journal of medical microbiology · 2011
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6. Simultaneous nasopharyngeal carriage of two pneumococcal multilocus sequence types with a serotype 3 phenotype.International journal of microbiology · 2010
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7. Multilocus sequence typing.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2009
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8. Automation of MLST using third-generation liquid-handling technology.Molecular biotechnology · 2006
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9. Clonal analysis of invasive pneumococcal isolates in Scotland and coverage of serotypes by the licensed conjugate polysaccharide pneumococcal vaccine: possible implications for UK vaccine policy.European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology · 2005
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10. Multilocus sequence typing: Data analysis in clinical microbiology and public health.Molecular biotechnology · 2005
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11. Genetic analysis of diverse disease-causing pneumococci indicates high levels of diversity within serotypes and capsule switching.Journal of clinical microbiology · 2004
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12. Serotypes and sequence types of pneumococci causing invasive disease in Scotland prior to the introduction of pneumococcal conjugate polysaccharide vaccines.Journal of clinical microbiology · 2004
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13. Molecular epidemiology of penicillin-susceptible non-beta-lactam-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates from Greek children.Journal of clinical microbiology · 2003
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Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Funding

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Abstract

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