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SUBMITTER: Choi SY
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2652033 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Choi Seon Young SY Jeon Yoon-Seong YS Lee Je Hee JH Choi Boram B Moon Sun Hwa SH von Seidlein Lorenz L Clemens John D JD Dougan Gordon G Wain John J Yu Jun J Lee Je Chul JC Seol Sung Yong SY Lee Bok Kwon BK Song Jae-Hoon JH Song Manki M Czerkinsky Cecil C Chun Jongsik J Kim Dong Wook DW
Journal of medical microbiology 20071101 Pt 11
The multilocus sequence typing scheme used previously for phylogenetic analysis of Escherichia coli was applied to 107 clinical isolates of Shigella flexneri. DNA sequencing of 3423 bp throughout seven housekeeping genes identified eight new allele types and ten new sequence types among the isolates. S. flexneri serotypes 1-5, X and Y were clustered together in a group containing many allelic variants while serotype 6 formed a distinct group, as previously established. ...[more]