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SUBMITTER: Didelot X
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2762044 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Didelot Xavier X Urwin Rachel R Maiden Martin C J MCJ Falush Daniel D
Microbiology (Reading, England) 20090730 Pt 10
Despite the increasing popularity of multilocus sequence typing (MLST), the most appropriate method for characterizing bacterial variation and facilitating epidemiological investigations remains a matter of debate. Here, we propose that different typing schemes should be compared on the basis of their power to infer clonal relationships and investigate the utility of sequence data for genealogical reconstruction by exploiting new statistical tools and data from 20 housekeeping loci for 93 isolat ...[more]