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ArticleJournal of clinical microbiology2008

Characterization of clonal relatedness among the natural population of Staphylococcus aureus strains by using spa sequence typing and the BURP (based upon repeat patterns) algorithm.

Alexander Mellmann, Thomas Weniger, Christoph Berssenbrügge, Ursula Keckevoet, Alexander W Friedrich, Dag Harmsen, Hajo Grundmann

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Article in Journal of clinical microbiology, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 41 papers.

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41citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

41 citing papers in PubMed, 96 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Alexander MellmannInstitute for Hygiene, University Hospital Münster, Robert-Koch-Str. 41, 48149 Münster, Germany. mellmann@uni-muenster.de
Thomas Weniger
Christoph Berssenbrügge
Ursula Keckevoet
Alexander W Friedrich
Dag Harmsen
Hajo Grundmann
University Hospital Münster · DENational Institute for Public Health and the Environment · NL

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We evaluated the BURP (based upon repeat patterns) algorithm, which relies on sequencing of the Staphylococcus aureus protein A gene (spa), for its ability to infer clonal relatedness within a population of 110 wild-type strains. BURP clustering of the resulting 66 spa types was highly concordant with multilocus sequence typing (96.5% concordance) and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (94.9%).

Indexed as

Bacterial Typing TechniquesCluster AnalysisDNA, BacterialElectrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-FieldGenotypeHumansSequence Analysis, DNAStaphylococcal Protein AStaphylococcus aureusDNA, BacterialStaphylococcal Protein A

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PMID18524961
PMCPMC2519486
OpenAlexW2131348507

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